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| The pattern of events or main story in a narrative or drama |
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| A subdivision of a plot subordinate to the main plot in a film or literary work |
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| A statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material |
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| Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot |
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| The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax |
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| A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved |
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| A moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially the conclusion of a crisis;The turning point in a plot or dramatic action |
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| The events of a dramatic or narrative plot following the climax |
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| a fortuious outcome in the end of a story |
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| an unfortune outcome at the end of a story |
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| The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. b. The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place. 2. The outcome of a sequence of events; the end result |
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| Arranged in order of time of occurrence |
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| A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative |
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| A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur |
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| A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty |
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| A passage of writing presenting a character's inner thoughts and emotions in a direct, sometimes disjointed or fragmentary manner |
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| Shrewd or devious management, especially for the author's own advantage; a play with time |
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| Shrewd or devious management, especially for the author's own advantage; a play with time |
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| Shrewd or devious management, especially for the author's own advantage; a play with time |
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| events happening at the same time in a story |
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| To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
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| The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form |
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| A sermon, especially one intended to edify a congregation on a practical matter and not intended to be a theological discourse. 2. A tedious moralizing lecture or admonition. 3. An inspirational saying or platitude |
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| A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule |
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| The grammatical category of forms that designate a speaker or writer referring to himself or herself; "I" ;A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms |
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| confined knowledge from the author |
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| The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature, a movie, or another art form. |
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| To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage |
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| A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement |
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| The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds |
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| a speaker that is not dependable |
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| A basis for an action or response and the result of it |
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| A pictorial representation |
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| the result of organizing items in according to class or category |
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| where usually two items are looked at and analyed to find the similarities and differences |
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| the arrangement of things according to significance |
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| a discourse characterized by argument |
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| Tending or having the power to persuade |
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| The art or technique of composing statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material |
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| To stretch or spread a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, out to greater or fullest length |
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| A comparison based on such similarity |
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| an explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol |
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| a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn; trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly |
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| an indirect refernce to something (usually a literary text) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. Often used with humorous intent, to establish a connection between writer and reader, or to make a subtle point |
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| Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space or time |
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| Characterized by or given to meditation or contemplation; thoughtful |
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| a way of organization where the author gives the least important items first and the more important ones later |
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| Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance;Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses |
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| A series of explanations or interpretations;A personal narrative; a memoir |
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| Following or being in accord with accepted forms, conventions, or regulation;Executed, carried out, or done in proper or regular form |
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| Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof |
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| A proposition that is maintained by argument |
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| To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain |
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| Presenting the substance in a condensed form |
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| an argument based on the defining of words or clarifying an idea |
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| Reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction of something that is usually dissimilar but used to find similarities |
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| Reasoning from the general to the specific ", All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion" |
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| argument from specific ideas to general |
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| A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn;To state in advance as an introduction or explanation |
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| a bad theory that a work of literature is composed on |
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| an untrue situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavorable or mutually exclusive |
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| Open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead; ambiguous |
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| To take for granted without proof |
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| latin for "against the man" . when a person attacks his or her opponents intead of their arguments |
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| when a writer raises and irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue |
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| An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence |
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| The proposition concluded from one or more premises; a deduction |
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| The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true |
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| The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement |
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| A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
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| the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves |
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| Considered apart from concrete existence; an idea |
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| To give a false or misleading account of; misrepresent |
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| Characterized by spontaneity and freedom from artificiality, affectation, or inhibitions; to represent nature |
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| The air or climate in a specific place |
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| A state of mind or emotion |
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| Of or relating to the sense of sight |
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| Of or relating to hearing, the organs of hearing, or the sense of hearing. |
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| Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible |
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| Imaginative but impractical; visionary |
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| A fanciful poetic image, especially an elaborate or exaggerated comparison |
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| Presented in clear and striking manner;Perceived or felt with the freshness of immediate experience |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword |
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| A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as |
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