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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 |
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| Also called storyline, the plan, scheme, or main story of aliterary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
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| the surroundings or environment of anything: The garden was a perfect setting for the house. |
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| a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle |
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| conversation between two or more persons. |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied tosomething to which it is not literally applicable in order tosuggest a resemblance |
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| a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitlycompared |
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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group withthe same letter |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous |
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| a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destinedfor downfall |
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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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| an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious ortragic elements |
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| any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch,strength, source |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things,or of such images collectively |
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| the position or relation of parallels |
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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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| the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved. |
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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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| the act or process of inferring. |
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| a word opposite in meaning to another. |
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| a word same in meaning to another. |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, byimitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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