Literary Devices
Allegory
1. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
2. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.
2. A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as …
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…understanding.
b. An example of such omission.
Epigram
1. A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
2. A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. See Synonyms at saying.
3. Epigrammatic discourse or expression.
Epiphany
3.
a. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
b. A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization: “I experienced an epiphany, a spiritual flash that would change the way I viewed myself” (Frank Maier).
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