Set: Literary Elements
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All 12 Terms
| | Term | Definition |
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anastrophe | inversion of normal order of words |
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antithesis | parallel contrast of ideas |
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conceit | unusual elaborate comparison |
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frame story | smaller story to contribute to overall |
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in medias res | in the middle of |
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litotes | denying opposite |
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tautology | redundant repetition |
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synecdoche | part to represent a whole |
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verisimilitude | seeming to be true |
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soliloquy | talking to self |
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epistrophe | repeating last word/endings |
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epithet | characteristic attributed to character habitually |