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| Terms | Definition |
| FIGURATIVE/METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE | A general term referring to language that describes a thing in terms of something else |
| CARICATURE | Visual art or descriptive writing that deliberately exaggerates distinctive features or peculiarities of a subject for comic or absurd effect |
| EPIC | A long narrative poem written in a grand style to celebrate the feats of a legendary hero |
| SAGA | A long narrative story; a heroic tale |
| FORESHADOWING | A suggestion or indication that something will happen in a story; a hint that PRESAGES |
| ANECDOTE | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident |
| EULOGY | A LAUDATORY speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died |
| ALLUSION | An indirect or brief reference to a person, event, place, phrase, piece of art, or literary work that assumes a common knowledge with the reader or listener |
| SIMILE | An EXPLICIT (clearly stated) figure of speech that is a comparison between two essentially unlike things, usually using the words "like" or"as;'which points out a FIGURATIVE way that the two things ARE alike |
| METAPHOR | In its more narrow sense, a figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another using an IMPLICIT or implied comparison, without the use of"I ike" or "as:' |
| PERSONIFICATION | A figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human qualities or abilities |
| PARALLELISM/PARALLEL STRUCTURE | A rhetorical device or SYNTACTICAL (relating to sentence structure) construction which involves using matching grammatical patterns to establish the equivalent relationship or importance of two or more items |
| IRONY | A figure of speech in which what we say or write conveys the opposite of its literal meaning; Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result |
| SYNOPSIS | A brief summary of the major points of a thesis, theory, story or literary work; an abstract; a PREClS |
| SATIRE, LAMPOON, PARODY | A work that ridicules human vices, follies, and FOIBLES; comic criticism |
| HYPERBOLE | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; extreme exaggeration |
