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1. Harsh discordance of sound.
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Any imitation or copy so distorted or inferior as to be ludicris.
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A study of an individual unit, as a person, family, or social group, usually emphasizing developmental issues and relationships with the environment, especially in order to compare a larger group to the individual unit.
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A sudden and widespread disaster.
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A relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
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The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual natue of some person or thing.
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The creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.
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In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
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A large organized group of singers.
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Chronology is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.
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A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.
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Climactic order refers to the organization of ideas from one extreme to another.
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The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
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A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.
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Colloquial language, especially in philosophy of language, is natural language which, among other properties, uses colloquialisms.
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Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
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Comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections.
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[image]The identification of similarities and differences.
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The act or instance of comparing.
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A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
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An idea or feeling that a word invokes 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, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.
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Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
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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, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
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Use 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 that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
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Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
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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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Inteded 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.
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Direct presentation is the most mimetic narrative mode.
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Lack of harmony among musical notes.
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An exciting, emotional or unexpected series of events.
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Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.
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A medium for the expression of dramatic meaning.
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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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The character that changes significantly during the course of a story.
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