Ap #6 emp
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Jael_Loreal on November 1, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 motif | the green light in the Great Gatsby------ "My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead." |
| onomatopoeia | hiss, gurgle,pop |
| oxymoron | bittersweet, prettyugly,jumbo shrimp |
| parable | prodigcal son, good samaritan |
| parody | Don Quixote by Cervanted |
| pathos | by metaphor or story telling, common as a hook,--by a general passion in the delivery and an overall amount of emotional items |
| pedantic | overly cluttered with minutiae and detail |
| periodic sentence | " out of the bosom of the air, out of the cloud- folds of her garment shaken, over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest - feilds forsaken, silent and soft, and slow descended the moon" |
| personification | the pencil flew out of my hand |
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