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Apostrophe
Addressing (speaking to) an absent person or an object or concept
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Aside
an actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not heard by other actors on stage
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Soliloquy
a dramatic monologue that appears to be a character's inner thoughts
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Imagery
SENSE EXPERIENCE conveyed by language
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Figures of speech
methods of saying one thing and meaning another
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Simile
comparison to two unlike things using like, as, than, similar to
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Metaphor
an implied (for example, using the linking verb) comparison of two unlike things
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Personification
giving the attributes of a human to an animal, object, or idea
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Symbol
that which means more than it is
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Allusion
a reference to a person or event in history or literature
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Tone
author’s or speaker’s attitude towards the subject
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Verbal irony
saying the opposite of what is meant
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Irony of Situation
discrepancy between actual circumstances and what would seem appropriate (sarcasm)
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Dramatic Irony
discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the author means (audience knows more than the actors)
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Paradox
apparent contradicition which is somehow true (oxymoron - compact paradox, e.g. , “sweet sorrow”
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Overstatement
exaggeration ”in the service of truth” (hyperbole)
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Understatement
saying less than what is meant
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Pun
humorous "play” upon the double meaning of a word
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Alliteration
repetition of initial constants
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Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
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Consonance
repetition of consonant sounds
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Rhyme
repetition of accented vowel and all succeeding sounds (combination of assonance and consonance)
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Onomatopoeia
use of words which sound like what they mean
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Blank Verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter (10 syllables and it is stretched for Shakespeare)
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