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Literary Terms #4

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  • Synonym
    - Words that mean the same thing or almost the same thing
  • Parallel structure
    - involves two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form.
  • Antonym
    - A word opposite in meaning to another (good and bad)
  • In poetry a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated.
    Refrain
  • Essay
    - A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject usually written in prose.
  • Cliché
    - An overused expression that has lost its originality. “I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
  • Rhyme scheme
    - The rhyme pattern found in a poem
  • A question to which an answer is not expected or already known
    Rhetorical Question
  • Propaganda
    -Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
  • Stanza
    - A “chunk” or group of lines in poetry
  • Two lines that rhyme
    Couplet
  • Author’s Purpose
    - An author’s reason for writing: to inform, to persuade, to narrate
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