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Allusion

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An expression to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

2
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Blank verse

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Regular metrical, unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter

3
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Conceit

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A type of extended metaphor that compares 2 very unlikely things well

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Didactic

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Intended to teach, has moral instruction

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something the character doesn’t

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Dramatic monologue

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A poem in the form of a speech or narrative where the speaker reveals an aspect of their character whilst referring to a specific series of events

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Dramatic tension

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Keeping an audience hooked

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Narrative stance

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The sense we get from from the writer that a narrator is taking a particular view about something

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Paradox

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An absurd or contradictory statement that may have some truth

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Syntax

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The arrangement of words phrases to create well formed sentences