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Created on: 04-06-17 08:25

A story with an underlying meaning as well as a literal one

Allegory

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Used to describe poetry that satirizes the heroic style

Mock heroic

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The use of words to exploit double-meanings for humorous effects

Pun

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Literary or dramatic tool designed to create a particular effect in order to evoke a particular response from the audience or reader

Devices

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The power of arousing pity or sadness

Pathos

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The way in which words are arranged to form phrases or and sentences

Syntax

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Use of the same sound at the start of words occurring together

Alliteration

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A word of one syllable

Monosyllabic

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A stanza or poem of four lines

Quatrain

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A conversation between two or more people in a book,film or play

Dialogue

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Someone's personality as presented to others

Persona

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Artificial or exaggerated language

Rhetoric

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Indirect reference

Allusion

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A literary technique that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to their sensory reactions to external occurences

Stream of consciousness

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Recurring theme or design

Motif

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Giving human characteristics to something

Personification

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Act of repeating something

Repetition

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Recurring idea

Theme

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Used to describe poetry that satirizes the heroic style

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Mock heroic

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The use of words to exploit double-meanings for humorous effects

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Literary or dramatic tool designed to create a particular effect in order to evoke a particular response from the audience or reader

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The power of arousing pity or sadness

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