People can refer to something {allusion}|.
Word or phrase can have two meanings {ambiguity}|.
People can use word or phrase used earlier in history {anachronism}|.
People can refer to second situation to illustrate situation {analogy, language}.
Work can be about ideals or philosophical ideas {conceit, literature}, such as references to noble or serious ideas {metaphysical conceit} {Petrarchan conceit}.
Sentences {declarative sentence} can be statements, not questions or commands.
People can use style like teaching lesson {didactic}.
People can realize something's meaning {epiphany}|.
Narrative can state fact or hint about what will happen later {foreshadowing}|.
Stream-of-consciousness writing can have uninterrupted thought flow {interior monologue}|.
People can express things poetically {lyricism}.
Latin-American writing {magical realism} can be realistic but add miracles and fantastic events.
People can use lofty style {mock-heroic} {mock-epic} {high burlesque} on trivial themes.
People can use different words for same idea {paraphrase, literature}|, to vary diction.
Work can use standard dramatic character {stock character}, such as villain in melodrama, hopeless drunk, or mad scientist.
20th-century novels can describe hero's continuous conscious and unconscious mental life {stream of consciousness technique}.
"Where are they?" or "Where have the beautiful and powerful gone?" {ubi sunt} was medieval motif.
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