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| show | several consecutive/neighboring words with the same sound
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| show | refrence to mythological, literary, or historical person, place or clause for the purpose of contrast. ex: "he met his Waterloo"
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| show | a direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases or clauses for the purpose of contrast; ex: "sink or swim"
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| show | repetition of a constant sound within a series of words to produce harmonious effect
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| show | word choice intended to convey a certain effect
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| show | ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word(s)
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| show | words/phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else; involve some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. Not taken literally; used to produce images in mind; most common: simile, metaphor, personification
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| show | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement for special effects
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| show | consists of words/phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing senses
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| show | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
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| show | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. ("the white house issued a statement today")
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| show | telling of story
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| show | use of words that mimic the sounds they describe
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| show | form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression
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| show | a statement that appears contradictory or absurd but which really expresses the truth
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| show | kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects human characteristics
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| show | sequence of events/actions in literature
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| show | perspective from which narritive is told
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| show | time and place where it happens
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| show | a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike subjects
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| show | writers characteristic manner of employing language
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| show | arrangement of words and order of grammatical elements in a sentence
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| show | a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally associated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to each other
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| show | a comparison that explains or describes one subject by pointing out its similarities to another subject
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| show | repetition of beginning clauses
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| anecdote | show 🗑
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| aphorism | show 🗑
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| show | an expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing
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| show | the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group. Refers to pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Also known as "local color."
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| show | a sudden understanding or realization, which prior to this was not thought of or understood
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| show | an adjective or other descriptive phrase that is generally used to characterize a person, place, or thing
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| show | a use of words, a grammatical construction peculiar to a given language or an expression that cannot be literally translated
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| show | saying less than is actually meant, generally in an ironic way.
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| show | a language style adopted bt an author to create the effect of a particular speaker
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