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Soliloque
Speech that the character speaks to himself or herself to the reader/ audience rather than to the other characters
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Dramatic Monologue
Written as if someone is speaking to an unseen listener about important events or thoughts
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Aphorisms
A pithy observation about life
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Pathetic Fallacy
Setting the mood of a piece of writing by using the weather
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Dramitic Irony
When the audience or reader knows something the character in the book or play does not
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Sermatic field
A collection of words that have the same meaning
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Polysydeton
A literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g and or but) are used in quick succession even when the the conjunctions could be moved.
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Assonance
A close similarity of the vowel sounds or more words (e.g vermin and furnish)
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End Rhyme
When a poem has lines ending in words that sound the same
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Extended metaphor
A repatition of a metaphor over several stanzas
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Written as if someone is speaking to an unseen listener about important events or thoughts

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Dramatic Monologue

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A pithy observation about life

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Setting the mood of a piece of writing by using the weather

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Card 5

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When the audience or reader knows something the character in the book or play does not

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