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A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. It is ironic for a firehouse to burn down, or for a police station to be burglarized. Verbal irony is a figure of speech that occurs ...
A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. It is ironic for a firehouse to burn down, or for a police station to be burglarized. Verbal irony is a figure of speech that occurs ...
The repetition of syntactical similarities in passages closely connected for rhetorical effect. The repetitive structure lends wit or emphasis to the meanings of the separate clauses, thus being particularly effective in antithesis.
La repetición de semejanzas sintácticas en pasajes estrechamente conectado para efecto retórico. La estructura repetitiva presta ingenio o énfasis a los significados de las cláusulas separadas, por lo tanto ser particularmente eficaz en la antítesis.
The risk to individual participants versus the potential benefits. The risk/benefit ratio may differ depending on the condition being treated.
El riesgo para los participantes individuales frente a los posibles beneficios. La relación riesgo/beneficio puede variar dependiendo de la condición de ser tratada.
A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. Poets use rhythm to create pleasurable sound patterns and to reinforce ...
Término utilizado para referirse a la repetición de los sonidos tensionados y unstressed en poesía. Dependiendo de cómo se arreglan sonidos, el ritmo de un poema puede ser rápido o lento, entrecortado o liso. Los poetas usan ritmo para crear patrones de ...
The main or primary character in a play, film, novel, or other work of fiction.
El personaje principal en una obra, película, novela u otra obra de ficción.
A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. Personification offers the writer a way to give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals, inanimate objects, and abstract ...
A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. Personification offers the writer a way to give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals, inanimate objects, and abstract ...
A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. Symbols are educational devices for evoking complex ideas without having to resort to painstaking explanations ...
A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. Symbols are educational devices for evoking complex ideas without having to resort to painstaking explanations ...
A woody plant that usually has one main stem and reaches a height of at least 12 ft. Trees are very important for screening, framing, and shade, and are considered early in the landscape design program. Trees are usually placed before other plant material ...
Una planta leñosa que usualmente tiene un tallo principal y alcanza una altura de por lo menos 12 pies árboles son muy importantes para el cribado, encuadre y sombra y se consideran temprano en el programa de diseño de paisaje. Los árboles se colocan ...
Thinly coating furniture or material with gold or a gold-colored substance.
Revestimiento fino mobiliario o material con oro o una sustancia de color dorado.
The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. A theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. It is important not to mistake the theme for the actual ...
The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. A theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. It is important not to mistake the theme for the actual ...