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A statement broadcast on radio or television that presents the opinion of the owner, manager, or the like, of the station or channel.
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A mournful, melancoly, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
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An agruement that appeals to the readers emotions
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Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.
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A concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel.
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A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
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A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.
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A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.
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The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
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Pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words.
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Testimony about a scientific, technical, or professional issue given by a person qualified to testify because of familiarity with the subject or special training in the field.
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Writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain; a detailed statement or explanation.
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Rhetorical modes describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing.
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A metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem.
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Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot.
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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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The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
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Imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
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A light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
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Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
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Allows the reader or audience to see the point of view (including opinions, thoughts, and feelings) only of the narrator, and no other characters.
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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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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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To prevent the success of; frustrate; balk.
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To show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.
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External appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
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A short, relatively impersonal composition in prose.
In contrast to the familiar or personal essay, the formal essay (also known as the impersonal essay) is typically used for the discussion of ideas. Its purpose is generally to inform or persuade.
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[image]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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A narrative providing the framework for connecting a series of otherwise unrelated stories.
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Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
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[image]A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique,
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A person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.
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A human related investigative action, and /or action(s) of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of searching for /or researching conditions/ circumstances into past or current data or knowledge of a subject. That attains a methodology from beginning to end of an event or history or past events.
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An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
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