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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