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(also called bathos) a figure of speech in which there is a sudden change in style from the dignified to the silly or ridiculous, often used by writers for comic effect, e.g. I came, I saw, I tripped over my feet.
to twist the meaning of words or to arrange words and sentences in such a way as to distort the...
oneâ??s own opinion. The opposite of objectivity.
lighting that comes from below the subject. This creates a sinister and threatening effect.
a shortened form of a word, where the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter(s), e.g....
(also called an Italian sonnet) a sonnet consisting of an octave (eight-line stanza) and a...