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abstraction
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an idea disassociated from any specific instance; expresses a quality apart from an object
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aesthetic
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A guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility
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allegory
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the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence
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alliteration
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the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words (consonant)
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allusion
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a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
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ambiguous
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a word, phrase, or sentence whose meaning can be interpreted in more than one way
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analogy
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an extended comparison between two things/instances/people etc. that share some similarity to make a point
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anaphora
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines
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anastrophe
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normal word order is reversed or rearranged
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antithesis
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the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences
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aphorism
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a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words
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apostrophe
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when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed
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appositive
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a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it
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assonance
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the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds
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asyndeton
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conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose
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atmosphere
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the mood or pervasive feeling insinuated by a literary work
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audience
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part of your rhetorical situation (speaker, subject, audience); the person or persons to whom comments are directed (affects tone, meaning)
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bildungsroman
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this genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a defined social order. The growth process, at its roots a quest story, has been described as both "an apprenticeship to life" and a "search for meaningful existence within society"
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cacophony
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harsh, discordant sounds. Opposite of euphony.
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chiasmus
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repetition of ideas in inverted order
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climax
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writer arranges ideas in the order of importance (not that good of a definition/explanation of this term...)
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colloquialism
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characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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concrete
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opposite of abstract; identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter
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connotation
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the set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning
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consonance
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the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, as in assonance.
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denotation
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the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning. Opposite of connotation
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detail
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think of "The Rattler" (oh no!). The snake "turned a little to watch what I would do." This quote is strictly detail, creating a simple image, with no connotation at all. (Im still waiting for a defintion...)
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dialect
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a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language (think Jim in Huck Finn)
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