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| A work which strives to provoke smiles and laughter |
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| Something of humor interrupts an otherwise serious,often tragic, literary work |
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| The part of a plot in which the entanglement caused by the conflict is developed |
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| Language that is observable or physical, using places, things, and people instead of ideas |
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| Where the actual typeset layout of the poem suggests the topic |
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| A struggle between opposing forces |
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| The emotional implications that a word may carry |
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| The repetition of constant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry |
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| A pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter: may be a separate stanza |
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| The climax or turing point of a story or play |
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| The most crucial line(s) in a poem or prose passage, the part that best shows the main point |
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| The specific, exact meaning of a word; a dictionary defination |
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| The resolution of a plot after the climax |
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| An unexpected, artifical, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot |
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| Speech peculiar to a region; exhibits distinctions between two groups or even persons |
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| Conversation between two or more characters, usually set off with quotation marks |
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| An author's choice of words |
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| Overly instructive, preachy, sermonizing |
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| An alter-ego; two sides of one personality |
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