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| Cacophony was an American heavy metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker |
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| A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way |
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| In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study (or case report) is a descriptive, exploratory or explanatory analysis of a person, group or event. An explanatory case study is used to explore causation in order to find underlying principles. |
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| catastrophe is an extremely large-scale disaster, a horrible event |
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| Cause and effect essays are concerned with why things happen (causes) and what happens as a result (effects). |
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| character is a person in a narrative work of arts (such as a novel, play, television show/series, or film） |
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| Characterization or characterisation is the art of creating characters for a narrative |
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| foil is a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character |
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| the perception of similar sounds from multiple sources as a single, richer sound; signal processors design to simulate the effect |
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| a record of events starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred!!! |
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| A cliché or cliche is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, or effect |
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| Way of structuring a text according to the importance of items, usually from the less important to the more important |
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| The climax (from the Greek word “κλῖμαξ” (klimax) meaning “staircase” and “ladder”) or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama or when the action starts in which the solution is given.[1][2] Climax is a literary element |
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| A colloquialism is a word, phrase or paralanguage that is employed in conversational or informal language but not in formal speech or formal writing |
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| Colloquial language is informal language that is not rude, but would not be used in formal situations |
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| Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía), in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy |
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| Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter |
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| Comparison and contrast are ways of looking at objects and thinking about how they are alike and different. |
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| Comparison may refer to: Language |
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| A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war. |
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| A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, |
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| Consonance is a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, |
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| Contrast is the difference in luminance and/or color that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) distinguishable. I |
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| A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. |
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| Denotation is a translation of a sign to its meaning, more exactly, to its literal meaning. |
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| the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work. |
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| this is a simple writing guide for making descriptive essay an effective medium of communication. |
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| The term dialect (from the ancient Greek word διάλεκτος diálektos, "discourse", from διά diá, "through" + λέγω legō, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's |
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| is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more ("dia" means through or across) people. Its chief historical origins as narrative, philosophical or didactic device are to be found in classical Greek and Indian literature, in particular in the ancient art of rhetoric. |
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| A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day |
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| Diction, pronounced (dic-shun) (Latin: dictionem (nom. dictio) "a saying, expression, word"),[1] in its original, primary meaning, refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a poem or story |
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| intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment |
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| is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is practically acceptable. |
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| degree of emotional involvement in a work of art. The most obvious example of aesthetic distance (also referred to simply as distance) occurs with paintings |
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| En musique, une dissonance (antonyme de consonance) désigne la discordance d’un ensemble de sons — accord ou intervalle — produisant une impression d'instabilité, de contrariété entre les notes (une "dispute") et de tension, et nécessitant une résolution |
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| Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. |
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
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- A single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment
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| The form of a drama is the way that the story is told, the way the characters play their parts |
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| a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude: Ebeneezer Scrooge is a dynamic character |
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