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Melodrama
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A dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
 
 
 
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Metaphor
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figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.

 

 

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 The rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value.

 

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monologue
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a prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation.
 
 
 
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Mood
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prevailing emotional tone or general attitude.

 

 

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Mystery
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novel, short story, play, or film whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains puzzlingly unsettled until the very end.

 

 

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Myth
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A traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
 
 
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Narrative
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 Story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.

 

 

 

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Narration
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recital of events, especially in chronological order, as the story narrated in a poem or the exposition in a drama.
 
 
 
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Narrator
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a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences.
 
 
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Objective
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will change the meaning of the words, even if the pronunciation of the word is the same otherwise.

 

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Objective point of view
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is when a person provides only facts leaving them open for debate and other opinions to be factored in in order to arrive at a conclusion after extensively exploring the given facts.

 

 

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Octave
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 Is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

 

 

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Ode
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lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.

 

 

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Omniscient point of view
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The reader is all seeing and all knowing.

 

 

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onomatopoeia
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The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
 
 
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.

 

 

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