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an imaginative comparison of two dissimilar images, often used in the metaphysical poetry of the 17th century, e.g. This flea is you and I, and this our marriage bed. (Donne)
a literary work written to be acted or read in front of an audience, giving the names of...
lighting that comes from below the subject. This creates a sinister and threatening effect.
a pronoun that does the work of a conjunction. A relative pronoun join two sentences or two...
a figure of speech in which we attribute human characteristics to an inanimate object, e.g. the...
activities you do before reading a text, including skimming, scanning and predicting. See skim,...