ENGL 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simile, Magic Realism, Psychoanalysis
9 Aug 2016
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Allegory narrative (story, poem, etc. ) where characters, events, actions and/or setting convey a hidden message or meaning by the author. Alliteration - the repetition of the same sounds usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables. Allusion - an indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place or artistic work; relies on the reader"s familiarity of the reference. Analogy the comparison of a subject to something that is similar in order to clarify the subject"s nature, purpose, or function. The crack up ( the conjuror"s hat is empty. To draw things out of it has long been a sort of sleight of hand uses it to refer to his deficit of mental acuteness) Anaphora - a rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentence. London (repetition of every to emphasize that oppression does not discriminate)
