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| the characters in a play or story. |
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| a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change. |
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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem |
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| the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. |
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1. a series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted.
2. an ellipsis can also be used to indicate an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence. |
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a metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or closing parenthesis—or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period.
a line is considered end-stopped, too, if it contains a complete phrase. |
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| the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. |
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| a lengthy narrative poem in which the action, characters, and language are on a heroic level and the style is exalted and even majestic. |
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1. a brief, interesting, usually memorable and sometimes surprising statement.
2. a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.
3. short, satirical statement |
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| a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work. |
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1. diminish or put at rest.
2. relieve or alleviate. |
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| having a lot of space inside; roomy. |
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| inclined to teach or lecture others too much. |
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| of or belonging to the daytime. |
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| deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. |
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1. make less severe, serious, or painful.
2. lessen the gravity of. |
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1. beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly
2. shake; tremble. |
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| having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition. |
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1. giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.
2. favorably disposed toward someone. |
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| stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission. |
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