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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 allusion | a passing refereance to someting; an indirect mention |
| allusion | A man refers to his wife as his rib |
| antithesis | the strong contrast of expression clauses, sentences, or ideas within a balanced grammatical tructure |
| antithesis | life is short; art is long |
| apostrophe | addressing a personified object, or an absent person as though present |
| apostrophe | The redcoats were beaten by Washingtons army |
| assonance | Imperfect rhyme in which the words have identical vowel sounds but different consonant sounds before and after |
| assonance | flame rain |
| consonance | imperfect rhyme in which the words have identical consonant sounds but different vowel sounds |
| consonance | men nd mean |
| imagery | gentle rain |
| litote | point is made by denying of its oppisite; a kind of understatement |
| litote | its no small matter |
| metaphor | my mother in law sailed into the room |
| metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of a thing is used for somthing else associated with it |
| metonymy | The White House announces |
| solipisism | internal reality |
| aesthetic distance | the buffer zone betewwen the personal physic space othe ready and spectator |
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