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A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual |
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A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. |
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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Visual symbolism or visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work |
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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
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An exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances, genre or style of literature commonly adapted into a play for theater, radio or television. |
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Conversation between two or more people |
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A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program |
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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
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The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. |
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An approach to philosophy that regards external objects as the most fundamentally real things, with perceptions or ideas as secondary. It is opposed to idealism and Materialism and naturalism are forms of this. |
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Literary movement that is derived from Realism, which not only depicts real life but also probes deeper to seek the characteristic reminiscent of Romanticism. |
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A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group |
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The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
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A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. |
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A writer’s particular style, which he employs in a particular story, or piece of writing. May include hints of his or her own personality. |
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To determine this, you may need to notice the word choice and language, look at the sentence structure, examine the imagery, determine if the author uses irony, read the work out loud. |
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A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something. An adversary or villain. |
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The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. |
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Without this, the plot would be incomplete. Examples of this are external or man vs. man. It is the problem that the plot builds up to resolve. |
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