English2 - U2/3 - ORANGE (Examples)
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Allegory
“Animal Farm” is an allegory of the Russian Revolution
Allusion
Calling a smart student “an Einstein”
Analogy
“The brain is a computer because it processes information”
Anaphora
“I have a dream that one day… I have a dream that…”
Archetype
The hero archetype (e.g. Odysseus)
Canon
Shakespeare’s plays in the English literary canon
Mixed Metaphor
“We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”
Dead Metaphor
“The leg of a table”
Motif
Repeated images of light and darkness in Romeo and Juliet
Parallelism
“I came, I saw, I conquered”
Pastiche
A modern story written in Shakespearean language
Parataxis
“I came. I saw. I left”
Poetic License
Altering word order to fit a poem’s rhythm
Polysyndeton
“I wore a hat and a coat and a scarf and gloves”
Stanza
Monostich: 1; Couplet: 2; Tercet: 3; Quatrain: 4; Sestet: 6; Octave: 8
Verse
Poetry
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