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soliloquy
speech where a character talks to herself without addressing a listener
anthropomorphism
attrubution of human characteristics to animals/objects
anecdote
short accout of an interesting or humorous incident
etymology
historical development of a word
prose
ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure
construe
to explain or interpret
protagionist
main character
infer
to conclude based on evidence
pun
play with words
trite
boring
satire
art in which human vice or folly is pointed out through wit or irony
epigram
short witty poem expressing a single clever thought
deduce
to infer
personification
a person/thing typifing a quality or idea; figure of speech animals/objects human qualities
perspective
point of view
irony
incongruity between what happenes and what is expected; language that expresses something opposite of its meaning; using the wrong word
archetype
origional model after which another similar things are patterend
rhetoric
art and study of using lang

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