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| a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition |
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| the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination |
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| a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: |
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| the act of a person or thing that sets |
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| to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: |
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| conversation between two or more persons |
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| a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in |
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| figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” |
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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly" |
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| a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat: Oedipus, the classic tragic hero |
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play |
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| to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government |
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| an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action |
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| an accent peculiar to a person, people, locality, etc., or a characteristic mode of sounding words in speech |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. |
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| to happen at the same time as something else, or be similar or equal to something else |
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| agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel. |
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| : related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. |
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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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| a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured product |
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| the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character |
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| To guess out onto something |
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| an anonymous person or publication |
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| a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated |
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| the use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect. |
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