A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
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Adverb
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a phrase, expressing a relation of place, time,...
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Verb
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear,...
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Noun
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one o
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Utterance
a spoken word, statement, or vocal sound.
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Ellision
The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I'm, let's, e'en).
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Contractions
a word or group of words resulting from shortening an original form: “goodbye” is a contraction of “God be with you.
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Interlocutor
a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
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Allegory
a story or narrative, often told at some length, which has a deeper meaning below the surface
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Alliteration
the repetition of the same consonant sound, especially at the beginning of words
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Allusion
a reference to another event, person, place, or work of literature - usually implied rather than explicit and often provides another layer of meaning to what is being said
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Ambiguity
use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two or more possible interpretations or meanings
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Ambivilance
ndicates more than one possible attitude is being displayed by the writer towards a character, theme, or idea, etc
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Antithesis
contrasting ideas or words that are balanced against each other
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Archaic
language that is old-fashioned - not completely obsolete but no longer in current use
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Assonance
the repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Colloqual
ordinary, everyday speech and language
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Consonance
the repetition of the same consonant sounds in two or more words in which the vowel sounds are different
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Euphemism
expressing an unpleasant or unsavory idea in a less blunt and more pleasant way
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Fable
a short story that presents a clear moral lesson
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Figurative Language
language that is symbolic or metaphorical and not meant to be taken literally
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Motif
a dominant theme, subject, or idea which runs through a piece of literature
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Onomatopoeia
the use of words whose sound copies the sound of the thing or process that they describe
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Oxymoron
a figure of speech which joins together words of opposite meanings
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Paradox
a statement that appears contradictory, but when considered more closely is seen to contain a good deal of truth
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Refrain
repetition throughout a poem of a phrase, line, or series of lines, as in the 'chorus' of a song
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Rhetoric
originally, the art of speaking and writing in such a way as to persuade an audience to a particular point of view. Now this term is often used to imply grand words that have no substance to them
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Soliloquy
a speech in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts and feelings aloud for the benefit of the audience, often in a revealing way
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Syntax
the way in which sentences are structured
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A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a phrase, expressing a relation of place, time,...
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Adverb
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Front
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear,...
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Card 4
Front
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one o
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