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Character
Person in a story, poem or play
Climax
Moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot.
comedy
in general, a story that ends happily.
Comic Relief
Comic Scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative.
Conflict
Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.
Internal Conflict
Character that has a conflict that takes place entirely within a characters own mind.
External Conflict
character struggles against an outside force.
Character
Person in a story, poem or play
Climax
Moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot.
comedy
in general, a story that ends happily.
Comic Relief
Comic Scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative.
Conflict
Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.
Connotation
All meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Connotation
All meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Description
type of writing intended to create a mood or emotion or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event or an experience.
Dialect
way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people.
Diction
A writers or speakers choice of some words.
Drama
Story that is written to be acted for an audience.
Epic
Long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which relates to the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies that values of a particular society.
Epithet
Adjective or descriptive phrase that is usually used to characterize a person, place, or thing.
Essay
Short piece of nonfiction that examines a singe subject from a limited point of view.
Exposition
Type of writting that explains, gives information, defines or clarifies and idea.
Fable
A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or particular lesson, about how to get along in life.
Figure of speech
Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood at a literal level.
flashback
Scene in a movie, play, shortstory, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened in a earlier time.
Foil
Character who is used as contrast to another character.
Folk Tale
Story that has no known author, and was originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth
fore-shadowing
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot.
free verse
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme