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| A harsh discordant mixture of sounds. |
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| A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. |
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| A particular instance of something used or analysed in order to illustrate a thesis or principle. |
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| An event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster. |
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| The principle of causation. |
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The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.
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A person in a novel, play, or film.
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The act or an instance of characterizing.
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A description of qualities or peculiarities. |
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| A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. |
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A part of a song which is repeated after each verse.
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(Of a group of people) say the same thing at the same time.
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Chronological Order
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| The arrangement of things following one after another in time. |
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| A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. |
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| To the organization of ideas from one extreme to another. |
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| The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; the culmination. |
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| A word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation. |
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Colloquial Language
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| The languge, words and phrases used in casual situations by the people, as opposed to formal language. |
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| Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. |
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| Humorous content in a dramatic or literary work intended to offset more serious episodes. |
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Compare and Contrast
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Pertaining to a written exercise about the similarities
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| A consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people. |
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| A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. |
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| An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning. |
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| Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. |
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| The state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association. |
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| A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length. |
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The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast
to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
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| The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. |
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Descriptive Essay
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| Uses the senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste to provide the reader with a mental image or feeling about the subject. |
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| A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. |
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| A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or film. |
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| A book in which one keeps a daily record of events and experiences. |
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| The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
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| Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. |
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| A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable. |
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Direct Presentation
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| The writer tells readers what kind of personality the character possesses rather than allowing the character to show his or her personality and allow readers to draw their own conclusions. |
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| Lack of agreement or harmony between people or things. |
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A play for theatre, radio, or television.
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An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance. |
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| The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
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Dramatic Monologue
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| A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. |
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| A medium for the expression of dramatic meaning (e.g., improvisation, tableau, role, Story Theatre, dance drama, Readers Theatre, mask, mime, puppetry, script work, audiovisual); may involve the integration of a variety of media and a combination of the arts. |
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Dynamic Character
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| A literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality orattitude: |
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