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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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antiphrasis

Literature; Literary techniques

Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect. From the Greek : anti "opposite" ...

apostrophe

Literature; Literary techniques

Apostrophe is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. Example: "Hel ...

assonance

Literature; Literary techniques

Assonance is a figure of speech that is found more often in verse than in prose. It refers to the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or ...

parenthesis

Literature; Literary techniques

Parenthesis is an additional information. The normal progression of a sentence is interrupted by extra information or explanations enclosed in commas, brackets or dashes. The ...

merism

Literature; Literary techniques

Merism is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits. Examples: High and low. (To search ...

adjunction

Literature; Literary techniques

Adjunction is a figure of speech in which a word, phrase or clause is placed at the beginning or the end of a sentence. Examples: Fades physical beauty with disease or ...

antanaclasis

Literature; Literary techniques

Antanaclasis is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun. Examples: 1. Put out the ...