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| Character in conflict with the protagonist (usually the struggle between the protagonist and the antagonist is the foundation for the central plot) |
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| In the plot of a story or a play, the climax, or turning point, is the point of maximum interest. |
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| struggle between two opposing forces |
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| An expression whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.EX: It is raining cats and dogs. |
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| is about the author’s personal experiences. |
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| A statement that seems to contradict itself, but is, nevertheless, true. It is evident in all forms of irony. |
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| The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance. (the verbs are all in the same tense) ex: run, swim, jump = parallel running, swim, quickly = NOTparallel |
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| something that has become over used or common Ex: Best things come in small packages |
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| The rules of grammar, which control the way that words are arranged to, form sentence. |
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| A poetic device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another for comparison Ex: youth and old age; servants and nobles; the noisy public feast and the private whispers of the lovers; |
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