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| a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary |
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| the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. This is the result of the reader having a greater knowledge than the characters themselves |
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| a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
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| an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |
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| a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another |
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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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| the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text |
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| a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy |
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| an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play |
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| a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character |
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| be a warning or indication of a future event |
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| excessive pride or self-confidence. |
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| the atmosphere or pervading tone of a story |
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| the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way |
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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 use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues |
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| a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is |
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| a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group |
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| exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
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| a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story |
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| a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract |
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| A story of a historical event. The people and the places are true, but it is written as a story |
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| a sentence in which the predicate comes before the subject |
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| a term used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being |
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| a symbolic narrative of a culture, tradition or people that describes their earliest beginnings, how the world they know began and how they first came into it |
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| a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere |
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| a story featuring a protagonist (often an anthropomorphized animal) who has magical powers and is characterized as a compendium of opposites. Simultaneously an omniscient creator and an innocent fool, a malicious destroyer and a childlike prankster, the trickster-hero serves as a sort of folkloric scapegoat onto which are projected the fears, failures, and unattained ideals of the source culture |
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