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| a brief, often indirect reference to a person, place or work of art. |
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| a person (or thing) opposing the protagonist or hero. |
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| a decent in importance, interest,etc., contrasting sharply with. |
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| a actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by the characters on stage. |
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| a narrative song, usually handed down in the oral tradition and originally. |
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| fictional personality created by an author. |
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| a point of greatest intensity of action, interest, or emotion in a story. It usually follows a build-up. It usually occurs at a turning point. |
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| a play in which the story is designed to interest the audience. |
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| the final untying or end of the plot; in French the word means unknotting. |
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| a traditional poetic form that treats death in a formal philosophic way. |
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| a long narrative poem, exalted in style and heroic in theme. |
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| in fiction that part where the author conveys the necessary background material. |
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| a comedy employing ludicrous or exaggerated effects or situation. |
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| an interruption in the logical time sequence to relate a scene or episode that occurred prior the opening situation. |
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| hints or clues of things to come. |
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| poetry written with rhythm and other poetic devices but without meter or rhythm scheme. |
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| a pair of rhythm verse lines in iambic pentameter. |
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| pictures and impressions made with words. |
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| any short poem or passage in a poem, intended to mainly express a state of mind. |
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| likeness expressed in figurative language in which one thing is compared to another without the use of "like" or " as". |
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