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Allegory
A narrative or visual representation that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message.
Allusion
A reference to a person, event, or thing from another text.
Apostrophe
A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object.
Aside
A speech delivered to the audience that other characters cannot hear.
Assonance
The repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words.
Elegy
A poem of serious reflection, typically lamenting the dead.
Euphemism
A mild or indirect word used to replace a harsher word.
Hyperbole
An exaggeration used as a rhetorical device.
Invocation
A call to a deity for help or inspiration.
Metaphor
A figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object which is not literally applicable.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech where two contradictory words are placed next to each other.
Parody
An imitation of the style of a particular writer.
Personification
The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things or ideas.
Rhyme scheme
A poet’s deliberate pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines.
Syntax
The arrangement of words, tense, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure used to create an effect.
Understatement
A literary device that downplays a particular quality or presents it as less than it is.
Laudatory
A piece of writing expressing praise or admiration for someone.
Meticulous
Very careful and paying attention to every detail.
Paucity
A small amount of something, or less than what is needed.
Raconteur
A person who tells funny or interesting stories.
Sanctimonious
Excessively displaying religious devotion, almost hypocritically.
Sardonic
Scornfully mocking; a form of humor that is not necessarily malicious, but has a degree of skepticism.
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