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Communication
12th Grade
10/22/2012

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Dialogue

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an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, especially a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement.
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Dynamic Character

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a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude: Ebeneezer Scrooge is a dynamic character. Compare static character.
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Emphasis

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something that is given great stress or importance
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Exaggeration

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The act of overstateing
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Exposition

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writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain; a detailed statement or explanation; explanatory treatise: The students prepared expositions on familiar essay topics.
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Fable

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a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue
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Fantasy

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a mental image, especially when unreal or fantastic; vision
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Figureative Languge

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language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
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FlashBack

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a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
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Flat Character

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an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
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Foreshadowing

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to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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Formal Language

 

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. a language designed for use in situations in which natural language is unsuitable, as for example in mathematics, logic, or computer programming. The symbols and formulas of such languages stand in precisely specified syntactic and semantic relations to one another
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Free Verse

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verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
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