| Definition | Term |
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| Repetition of opening letter | |
| A comparison that works through referring to another piece of literature or myth | |
| A statement addressing a personified object, nature, or a person who is not actually present. | |
| in a play; a moment in which one character speaks to the audience (or to another character) but is not heard by everyone onstage | |
| An extended metaphor (one that runs through a whole poem) that compares two strangely dissimilar things | |
| Arises when the audience (or reader) possesses knowledge that the characters do not, or when one character knows more than the rest. | |
| A descriptive phrase that refers to a character (and that is used so frequently that it comes to replace that character's name). | |
| A deliberate half-truth that is meant to deceive others. | |
| Anything that gives clues to future events. | |
| Overexaggeration; usually employed for melodramatic effect. | |
| Any language that evokes the five senses (taste, sight, smell, etc). | |
| in Anglo-Saxon literature only; a compound adjective that is used as a metaphor to describe something. Can describe things as well as people. | |
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