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allegory
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allegory - device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in
addition to the literal meaning |
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alliteration
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alliteration - the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words
(e.g. "she sells sea shells") |
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allusion
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allusion - a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an
event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
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allegory
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allegory - device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in
addition to the literal meaning |
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allegory
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allegory - device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in
addition to the literal meaning |
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alliteration
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alliteration - the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words
(e.g. "she sells sea shells") |
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example of allusion
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“As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father’s end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas.” (61). This is an allusion to the old testament God
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alliteration
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alliteration - the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words
(e.g. "she sells sea shells") |
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allusion
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allusion - a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an
event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
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ambiguity
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ambiguity - the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or
passage |
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example of allusion
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“As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father’s end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas.” (61). This is an allusion to the old testament God
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allusion
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allusion - a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an
event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
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example of allusion
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“As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father’s end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas.” (61). This is an allusion to the old testament God
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ambiguity
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ambiguity - the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or
passage |
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analogy + example
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analogy - a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
“Handsome. Proud, and ingrown, “like a toe nail,”… page 62 Notes of a Native Son |
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antecedent
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antecedent - the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
“One of my father’s strong-willed female relatives had placed it there and forbade my father to take it down. He never did…” he = my father (antecedent) page 61 Notes of a Native Son |
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ambiguity
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ambiguity - the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or
passage |
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analogy + example
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analogy - a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
“Handsome. Proud, and ingrown, “like a toe nail,”… page 62 Notes of a Native Son |
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aphorism
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aphorism - a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle
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antecedent
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antecedent - the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
“One of my father’s strong-willed female relatives had placed it there and forbade my father to take it down. He never did…” he = my father (antecedent) page 61 Notes of a Native Son |
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aphorism
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aphorism - a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle
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apostrophe
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apostrophe - a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified
abstraction, such as liberty or love |
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atmosphere
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atmosphere - the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting
and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described clause - a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
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apostrophe
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apostrophe - a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified
abstraction, such as liberty or love |
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atmosphere
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atmosphere - the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting
and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described clause - a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
