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Comedy
A story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters.
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Conceit
An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor.
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External Conflict
Conflicts between two people, a person and nature or a machine, or a person and an entire society.
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Internal Conflict
Conflict involving opposing forces within a person's mind.
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Connotation
The associations an emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
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Couplet
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.
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Dialect
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.
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Diction
A speaker or writer's choice of words.
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Elegy
A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has dies.
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Epanalepsis
Repetition in which the same expression is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of a line, clause, or sentence (Common sense is not so common).
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Epic
A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society.
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Epigraph
A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.
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Epistrophe
Repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.
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Epithet
An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality.
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Fable
A very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.
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Farce
A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.
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Figurative Language
Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe.
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Flashback
A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
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Foil
A character who acts as contrast to another character.
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Foreshadowing
The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
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Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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