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Dialogue

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The conversation carried by the characters in a literary work

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Denouement

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The final resolution or outcome of a play or story

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Drama

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The form of literate known as plays, but drama also refers to The type of serious play that is often concerned with the leading characters relationship to society

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Dramatic monologue

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A literary work or part of a literary work in which a character is speaking about him or herself as if another person were present. The word of the speaker reveals something important about his character

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Epic

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A long narrative poem that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero

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epiphany

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A sudden perception (moment of understanding) that causes a character to change or act in a certain way

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essay

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A piece of prose that expresses an individual’s point of view usually it’s a series of closely related paragraphs that combine to make a complete piece of writing

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Exaggeration

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Overstating or stretching the truth for special effect

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Exposition

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Writing that is intended to explain something that might otherwise be difficult to understand in a play or novel it would be the point that gives background or situation surrounding the story

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Fable

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A short fictional narrative that teaches a lesson that usually includes animals the talk and act like people

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Falling action

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The part of the play or story that works out the decision arrived at during the climax the falling action in the most dangerous game is When zaroff is in his room

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Farce

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Literature based on a humorous and improbable plot

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Narrative

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Tells a story bitch

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Figurative language

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Language used to create a special effect or feeling

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Figure of speech

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A literary device used to create a special effect or feelings by making some type of interesting or creative comparison

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Antithesis

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An opposition or contrast of ideas for example it was the best of times it was the worst of times

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration or overstatement

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metaphor

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A comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison is used for example a green plants is a machine that runs on solar power

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Simile

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Comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

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Metonymy

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The substituting of one word for another related word

For example the Whitehorse decided to create more public service jobs

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Personification

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A literary device in which the author speaks or describes an animal, object, or idea as if it were a person

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Understatement

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A way of emphasizing an idea by talking about it in a restrained manner

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Flashback

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Returning to an earlier time in the story for the purpose of making something in the present more clear

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Foil

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Someone who serves as a contrast or challenge to another character for example snowball + Napoleon boxer and Molly

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Foreshadowing

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Giving hints or clues to what is to come later in the story

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Who is beautiful

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Leslie