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| Beginning of story.. Character background development of theme. |
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| The Authors arrangement of incidents in a story to give shape. |
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| Struggle between opposing forces |
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| Moment of greatest emotional tension, marking a turning point. |
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| "unraveling", resolution of the plot after the climax. |
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| A break in narrative order to reveal events of the past. |
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| The introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later. |
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| The stream-of-consciousness technique takes a reader inside a character’s mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level. |
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| The secondary action of a story, complete and interesting in its own right, that reinforces or contrasts with the main plot |
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| In medias res is a term used to describe the common strategy of beginning a story in the middle of the action. |
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| Parenthetical observation |
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| Using or containing parentheses |
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| relating to or arranged according to temporal order |
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| the I in the story presents the point of view of only one character |
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| a third-person point of view in which the narrator does not comment on or interpret any of the characters or their actions |
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| Story told from the perspective of "you" (uncommon |
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| 3rd person Omniscient POV |
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| It's a point of view where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story instead of just 1. |
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| The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences |
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| the main word or words in the complete predicate |
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| the main words or words in the complete subject |
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| all of the words in a sentence that tell what the subject i= s or does. |
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| the object that receives the direct action of the verb |
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| the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb |
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| appositional: relating to or being in apposition |
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| fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. |
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| a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
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| Dependent or subordinate clause |
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| cannot stand alone as a sentence |
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| a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses |
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| a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses |
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| Coordinating conjunctions |
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| A conjunction that joins two similarly constructed and/or syntactically equal words or phrases or clauses. |
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| a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
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| similarity by virtue of corresponding |
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| Loose or cumulative sentence |
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| sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function |
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| a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause |
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| reversing the normal word order of a sentence |
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| A playwright’s written instructions about how the actors are to move and behave in a play |
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| The verbal exchanges between characters |
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| A dramatic convention by means of which a character, alone onstage, utters his or her thoughts aloud |
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| a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time |
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| a sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society |
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| light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as a true love able to surmount most obstacles |
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| The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class |
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| A stock character is a stereotype |
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| The main character of a narrative |
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| The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story; |
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| A character in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character in order to highlight the distinctive temperament of that character (usually the protagonist |
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| a dramatic compostion involving both elements of of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating |
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| classic story with a tradgic ending |
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| Excessive pride or self-confidence |
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| plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless |
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| a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment |
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| a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play |
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| A god who resolves the entanglements of a play by supernatural intervention |
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| Derived from the Greek word dram, meaning "to do" or "to perform," the term drama may refer to a single play, a group of plays ("Jacobean drama"), or to all plays ("world drama"). Drama is designed for performance in a theater; actors take on the roles of characters, perform indicated actions, and speak the dialogue written in the script |
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| the Western development of drama beginning in the late 19th century |
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| a form of tragedy which was extremely popular in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras |
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| a play in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle-class or lower-class individuals. |
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| A humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work |
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| The struggle within the plot between opposing forces |
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| the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy |
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| A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as. |
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| inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities |
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| A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea. |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. An example: "Lend me a hand |
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| A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means |
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| A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense. |
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| A condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together |
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| A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite |
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| a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
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| play on words that relies on a word’s having more than one meaning or sounding like another word. |
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| a figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite |
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| a strong form of verbal irony that is calculated to hurt someone through |
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| exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension or control |
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| creates a discrepancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience member knows to be true |
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| The actor talking to the moon |
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| a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered |
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| using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier |
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| A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. |
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| a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect |
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| comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. |
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| attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example |
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| The literal object which evokes the comparison |
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| credibility has been seriously compromised |
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| A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature |
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| Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
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| unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar |
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| a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance |
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| the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry |
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| he pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work |
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| A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work |
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| The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work |
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| in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty |
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| bitterly condemns human vice and folly |
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| A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies |
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| A humorous scene or incident that alleviates tension in an otherwise serious work. |
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| The strategy or plan selected to effectively deliver the intended message in a written piece of work |
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| universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood |
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| The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same, for example, "asleep under a tree," or "each evening. |
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| A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds: home, same; worth, breath |
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| The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack |
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| a coming-of-age kind of novel |
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| is a novel written as a series of documents. |
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| avoids the familiar conventions of the novel |
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