lit terms: dialogue

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Colloquial

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Informal, conversational language

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Dialogue

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Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative or a literary work written in the form of a conversation

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Dialect

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A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary

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Diction

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Word choice

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Euphemism

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Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsh, blunt, or offensive one

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Figure of speech

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Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; a way of saying one thing but meaning another

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth

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Invective

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Denunciatory or abusive language

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Monologue

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A dramatic soliloquy or a literary composition in such form

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Aside

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A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience

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Proverb

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A shirt, pithy saying that expresses a basic truth or practical precept

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Sarcasm

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Bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed

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Soliloquy

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A device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any characters

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Slang

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A kind of language especially occurring in casual or playful speech usually made up of figures of speech deliberately used in place of standard terms

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Understatement

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A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or pf sating what one means with less force than the occasion warrants