My cat is cute.

Mrs. moon, my surgery went really well, but I don't think I will be coming Monday because of the pain. Besides that, look how adorable my cat is being. He usually acts like the devil, but he must know I need a little extra love today.

Motif

A recurring element with symbolic significance

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Controlling metaphor: a symbolic story where the whole story may be a metaphor for something else

Implied metaphor: a indirect metaphor

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metonymy

Noun The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for examplesuit for business executive

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Nice proofing Home Depot!

parallelism: similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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Litotes:
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.

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Litotes:
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.

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METAFICTION: Fiction in which the subject of the story is the act or art of storytelling of itself, especially when such material breaks up the illusion of "reality" in a work.

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Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparent contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Editorial narrator: a narrator who expresses or strongly implies moral judgments of the characters or their actions

Naïve narrator: a narrator who does not know the significance of some of the events, or is unaware of some important facts in the story (events, relationships, goals)

Unreliable narrator: a narrator who cannot be trusted  

Hamlet Reading

Hello Mrs. Moon, I was wondering how much of Hamlet I need to read while I'm down here. I have read up to the second act.

P.S. Quincey says hello