UIL - Literary Terms

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Not one of Burke's four major tropes

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Hyperbole

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Figurative language: word replaced by close meaning

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech where a part represents a whole

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Synecdoche

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Definition of Eponymy

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A name that gives rise to a people, place, or common noun.

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A long, mournful complaint or lamentation

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Jeremiad

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Part-song for several voices, Renaissance period

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Madrigal

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Art movement prioritizing aesthetic value

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Aestheticism

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Philosophical and arts movement (late 19th - early 20th century)

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Modernism

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Late 20th-century art style

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Post-modernism

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Reclaiming history under imperialism

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Colonialism/Post-colonialism