Literary Terminology

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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
allegory
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the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story.
denouement
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a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm.
epigram
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a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature.
motif
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a word or object that stands for another word or object.
symbol
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Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words.
anastrophe
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The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
anthropomorphism
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harsh, discordant sounds.Example: finger of birth-strangled babe.
Cacophony
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soothing pleasant sounds. Example: O star (the fairest one in sight)
Euphony
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putting two contradictory words together.
oxymoron
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Using a part to represent the whole. e.g Lend me your ears
synedoche
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A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover. John Donne's "The Sun Rising" exemplifies this poetic genre.
Aubade
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the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story.

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a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm.

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a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature.

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a word or object that stands for another word or object.

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