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Anthropomorphism

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The describing of gods or goddesses in human forms and possessing human characteristics such as jealousy, hatred, or love.

Anagram

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A word or phrase made by transposing the letters.

Aporia

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Expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.

Writerly text - a reader does not only receive information from the text, however, he approaches it from an external position of subjectivity and is actually a creator of his own text - such text is ...

Montage

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How directors connect ideas in a film. The shots are put together deliberately with transitions and by theme so that "elements should follow a particular system, and these juxtapositions should play ...

Motif

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A recurrent image, word, phrase, represented object or action that tends to unify the literary work or that may be elaborated into a more general theme. Also, a situation, incident, idea, image, or ...

Mode

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"An unspecific critical term usually identifying a broad but identifiable literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre. [Some] examples are the satiric ...