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| irony | contrast between what is said and what actually is true |
| foreshadowing | use of hints or clues that prepare the reader for events that will occur later |
| end rhyme | rhyme that comes at the end of a line of poetry |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within lines |
| allegory | a work of literature in which people, objects, and events stand for abstract qualities; teaches a lesson or moral principle |
| symbol | has a concrete meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within words |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds within two or more closely positioned words |
| aphorism | a short statement expressing a truth or clever observation about life |
| rhetorical question | a point that does not call for an answer because the answer is obvious |
| allusion | an indirect reference to a person, place, or event, or work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar |
| parallelism | a writer sometimes expresses ideas of equal importance in phrases or sentences that are worded in similar ways |
| loaded language | emotionally charged words used by writers to create negative or positive emotions to persuade the reader |
| anecdote | a brief story that illustrates a point |
| analogy | an extended comparison of two things that have certain similarities |
| refrain | consists of a word, line, or group of lines that is repeated regularly in a poem or song |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things that have something in common |
| persuasion | a type of writing intended to convince the reader to adopt a particular opinion |
| doppleganger | According to German folklore, every living being has an exact but usually invisible spirit double. |
| setting | the time and place in which the action of a story occurs |
| mood | the feeling created by the writer in a literary work |
