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harsh discordance of sound; dissonance
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a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
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a study of an individual unit, as a person, family, or social group, usually emphasizing developmentalissues and relationships with the environment, especially in order to compare a larger group to theindividual unit. [image]
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a sudden and widespread disaster
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noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other orothers.
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the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing. [image]
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portrayal; description: the actor's characterization of a politician.
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Foil characters make the characteristics and personality of the protagonist stand out.
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a group of persons singing in unison [image]
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the arrangement of things following one after another in time Put these documents in chronological order.
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a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or commonthought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
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Way of structuring a text according to the importance of items, usually from the less important to the more important.
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| the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something His career reached its climax when he was elected president. |
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a colloquial expression.
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| a word or phrase appropriate to conversation and other informal situations [image] |
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| a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic workin which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful orhappy conclusion.[image] |
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| an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, inorder to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. [image] |
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pertaining to a written exercise about the similarities and differences between two ormore people, places, or things [image]
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the state of being compared. [image]
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to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primarymeaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”
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| correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. [image] |
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| to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks. |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. [image] |
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| a word that names or signifies something specific: “Wind” is the denotation for air in natural motion. “Poodle” is the denotation for a certain breed of dog. |
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the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
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use the senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste to provide the reader with a mental image or feeling about the subject.
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| a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language byfeatures of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who areset off from others geographically or socially. [image] |
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| conversation between two or more persons. [image] |
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| a daily record, usually private, especially of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings,attitudes, [image] |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: Good diction |
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| intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry. |
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a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.[image]
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Direct presentation is the most mimetic narrative mode, since it gives an almost complete illusion of direct
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| inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony. |
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a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict orcontrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; [image]
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but notgrasped by the characters in the play. [image] |
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| a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himselfor herself and the dramatic situation.[image] |
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| A medium for the expression of dramatic meaning (e.g., improvisation, tableau, role, Story Theatre, dance drama, Readers Theatre, mask, mime, puppetry, script work, audiovisual); may involve the integration of a variety of media and a combination of the arts. |
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a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality orattitude Ebeneezer Scrooge is a dynamic character.
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