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- allusion
- a brief reference to a person, place, ting, event, or idea in history, classic literature, or even pop culture
- consonance
- the repetion of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other. Unlike alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds may be appear anywhere within words.
- burlesque
- for poetical or even musical effect
- assonance
- the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words
- chiasmus
- a figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second, Think of it as inverted parallelism
- apostrophe
- an address either to someone(orsomething) who is absent (perhaps someone dead or one of the gods) and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend
- connotation
- associations and implications that go beyond a word's definitions, There can be many possible connotations for a single word, not just "positive" and "negative"
- protagonist
- the central character of the story, whether hero or antihero
- denotation
- the literal, dictionary definitions of words
- antagonist
- the force opposes the protagonist
- cliche
- Ideas or expressions that have become tired from overuse
- alliteration
- describe repetition of consonant sounds within words
- anachronism
- the intentional or unintentional use of a person, object, or event that is out of place chronologically.
- colloquial
- characteristic of ordinary familiar language rather than formal; conversational languages.
- analogy
- analogy compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one.