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| an article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors. |
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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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Type of advertising in which the copy is designed to stimulate one's emotions, rather than one's sense of the practical or impractical.
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| A literary or dramatic composition that resembles an extended narrative poem celebrating heroic feats. |
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A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
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A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.
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The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive
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| Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words. |
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| a flash of recognition in which someone or something is seen in a new light. |
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| a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about. |
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| the act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining: the exposition of a point of view. |
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| an essay which explains something via facts, rather than opinions. |
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| a literary work that contains an extended metaphor. |
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| struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character. |
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an untruth; falsehood: This boast of a cure is a medical fable. |
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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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| metaphorically so called: His remark was a figurative boomerang. |
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| First person point of view |
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| The first person point of view is when a character is telling the story from his/her view. |
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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 keep (a person) from succeeding in an enterprise, plan, etc.
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to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war. |
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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 formal essay is simply an essay that has an introduction, a body, and a conclusion |
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| 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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| verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
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| a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique. |
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| a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. |
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obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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