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| A device by which a writer interputs the main action of a story to recreate a situation or incident of an earlier time as though it were occuring in the present. |
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| The dropping of important hints by the author to prepare the reader for wat is to come and to help him to anticipate the outcome. |
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| The unraveling of the plot, following the climax, in which the writer explains how and why it turned out as it did. |
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| A person in a work of fiction. |
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| Usually the main character, who faces a problem and, in his attempt to solve it, becomes involved in a conflict with an opposing force. |
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| The force that opposes the main character in his attempt to solve a problem and thus resolv the conflict in which he is involved. |
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| A character who conforms to a certain widely accepted ideas of how such a person should look, think, or act. |
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| An expression used so often that it has lost its freshness and effectiveness. |
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| The frame of mind or state of feeling created by a piece of writing. |
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| The language or manner of speaking that is typical of a particular region or group of people |
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| literature in which the author stresses geographical setting, as well as the speech, dress, and mannerisms peculiar to a certain region. |
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| A humorous imitation or burlesque of a serious piece of literature or writing. |
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| Any piece of writing which critizes manners, individuals, or political and soical institutions by holding them up to ridicule. |
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| An object that stands for an idea, belief, superstition, social or political institutions, ect. |
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| A reference to some person, place, or event with literary, historical, or geographical significance. |
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| A mode of expression in which the author says one thing and means the opposite. |
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| The implied or suggested meaning of a word or expression. |
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| a figure of speech in which two things are compared without the use of like or as. |
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| Using part of something to represent the whole. |
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| A poetic device in which the poet talks to an absent person, place, or thing as if it where present. |
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