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| the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
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| the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. |
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| the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. |
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| the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. |
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| involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist. Internal and External Conflicts. |
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| conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
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| the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. |
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| a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
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| a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
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| the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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| a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
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| person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering |
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| a plot device in which the audience's or reader's knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters |
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| prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding. |
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| comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections. |
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| the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. |
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| visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. |
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| All elements in a list – whether it's a list of nouns, of infinitives, of gerunds, of prepositional phrases, or of clauses - should be in similar form |
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| the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. |
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| a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. |
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| the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved. |
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| a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers |
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| an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind |
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| in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true. |
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| a word opposite in meaning to another |
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| a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language |
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| he formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
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