Glossary by Lea Bautista

1. Allegory

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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

2. Allusion

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an implied or indirect reference especially in literature

3. Anaphora

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repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect

4. Apostrophe

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the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

5. Antithesis

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the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences

6. Diction

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choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness

7. Dramatic Irony

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incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

8. Enjambment

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the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines

9. Foil

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someone or something that serves as a contrast to another

10. Imagery

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visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

11. Juxtaposition

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the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

12. Metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

13. Motif

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a usually recurring salient thematic element

14. Paradox

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a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

15. Personification

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representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form

16. Simile

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a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

17. Symbolism

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he art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations

18. Syntax

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the way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses)

19. Theme

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a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation

20. Tone

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style or manner of expression in speaking or writing