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Cacophony was an American heavy metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker.[1] They remained active until 1989, after which both guitarists would go on to forge their own solo careers and join other bands. |
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A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way.
In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.[ |
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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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A catastrophe is an extremely large-scale disaster, a horrible event.
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- Cause and effect, the philosophical concept of causality
- Cause and effect, a central concept of Buddhism; see Karma in Buddhism
- Cause and effect, the statistical concept and test, see Granger cause
- Cause and effect, the graphical method in quality control engineering, see Ishikawa diagram
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| A 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,[1] including the process of conveying information about them. It is a literary element and may be employed in dramatic works of art or everyday conversation. Characters may be presented by means of description, through their actions, speech, or thoughts. |
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This is when a character is portrayed as opposite of another character in a particular way. By putting the two characters next to each other, the different characteristic is emphasized.
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A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.
b. A refrain in which others, such as audience members, join a soloist in a song.
c. A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song.
d. A solo section based on the main melody of a popular song and played by a member of the group.
e. A body of singers who perform choral compositions, usually having more than one singer for each part.
f. A body of vocalists and dancers who support the soloists and leading performers in operas, musical comedies, and revues.
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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 (UK // or US //) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, or effect, and even, to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.[1] |
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In writing, there are patterns of organization as to how a writer will "grab" the reader to lead her to the end of an idea. One type is "climactic order", in which the most important idea is saved for last. So, the writer starts a segment with the least important set of ideas or facts and continues to the end-the climax.
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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, especially in philosophy of language, is natural language which, among other properties, uses colloquialisms. In the field of logical atomism, meaning is evaluated differently than with more formal propositions.
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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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Comix Relief provides comic books to troops overseas and on the front lines. Many soldiers do not have the ability to purchase such items and it provides a much needed escape from their worries fighting for our country.
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Comix Relief provides comic books to troops overseas and on the front lines. Many soldiers do not have the ability to purchase such items and it provides a much needed escape from their worries fighting for our country.
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- File comparison, the automatic comparison of file data by a computer program
- Comparison (computer programming), code that makes decisions and selects alternatives based on them
- Comparison sort, a type of data sort algorithm
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| In literature, the literary element conflict is an inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces. Conflict creates tension and interest in a story by adding doubt as to the outcome. |
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A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word's or phrase's explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.
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Consonance is a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" or in "all mammals named Samare clammy".[1]
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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. |
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A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. |
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Denotation is a translation of a sign to its meaning, more exactly, to its literal meaning. Denotation is sometimes contrasted to connotation, which translates a sign to meaningsassociated with it. |
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1: the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
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: the outcome of a complex sequence of events
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| The descriptive essay is a genre of essay that asks the student to describe something—object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation, etc. |
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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 speakers. |
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Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English[1]) is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spokenconversational 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 ofrhetoric.
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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 or other period |
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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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| A dilemma (Greek: δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is practically acceptable. One in this position has been traditionally described as "being on the horns of a dilemma", neither horn being comfortable. |
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Direct Presentation - author tells us straight out, by exposition or analysis, or through another characte
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| In music, a consonance (Latin con-, "with" + sonare, "to sound") is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable (at rest), as opposed to a dissonance (Latin dis-, "apart" + sonare, "to sound"), which is considered unstable (or temporary, transitional). |
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| Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek:δρᾶμα, drama), which is derived from the verb meaning "to do" or "to act" (Classical Greek: δράω, draō). |
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The dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity.
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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 […].
- This person addresses and interacts with one or more other people; but we know of the auditors' presence, and what they say and do, only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker.
- The main principle controlling the poet's choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader, in a way that enhances its interest, the speaker's temperament and character.[1]
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The form of a drama is the way that the story is told, the way the characters play their parts, and/or the way the themes are explored.
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a static character remains the same throughout the novel.
a dynamic character experiences change.
the main character of a literary work is usually dynamic, while very minor characters are mostly static, though there are exceptions. |
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