Literary Terms 8

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use of details of a certain area to recreate it

local color

poem which tells a story

narrative poem

writing that tells a story

narrative

book-length fictional prose narrative

novel

a poem in praise of something

ode

literary device sound of word echoes sound it represents

onomatopoeia

combination of contradictory terms

oxymoron

situation seems to contradict, but does not

paradox

repetition of similar grammatical structures

parallelism/parallel structure

humorous iimitation of a literary work

parody

human characteristics given to non-humans

personification

recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, etc

repetition