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a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.

• protagonist

• foil

• nemesis

• antagonist

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a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

• allegory

• antidote

• allusion

• malapropism

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a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character, from his or her youth to adulthood.

• Victorian

• novella

• fantasy

• bildungsroman

is a figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas.

• metonmyy

• Zeugma

• synecdoche

• juxtaposition

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is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa.

• metonymy

• juxtaposition

• synecdoche

• zeugma

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is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa by placing two entities side by side to create dramatic or ironic contrast.

• metaphor

• simile

• juxtaposition

• analogy

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is a statement that appears at first to be contradictory, but upon reflection then makes sense.

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• simile

• paradox

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is a rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• cadence

• assonance

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is an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal, or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. It is used for the cleansing of emotions of the characters.

• epiphany

• catharsis

• antithesis

• meiosis

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is a narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas; the meaning behind the surface narrative has even greater value as a literary work.

• parable

• adage

• allegory

• symbolism

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