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the social and political circumstances in which a story or action takes place, e.g. Wealthy...

when the focus of the subject of an image is fuzzy, creating a romantic effect.

a speech by a single character in a play. In it, he or she conveys his or her thoughts to the...

a fourteen line poem, with a set rhyme scheme. See Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet...

a figure of speech such as alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia, that uses sound to create...

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