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Allegory (from Greek: ?????, allos, "other", and ????e?e??, agoreuein, "to speak") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. Allegory teaches a lesson through symbolism. ...
1 fable: a short moral story (often with animal characters)
2 emblem: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
3 an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaph
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Ambiguity is the property of being ambiguous, where a word, term, notation, sign, symbol, phrase, sentence, or any other form used for communication, is called ambiguous if it can be interpreted in more than one way.
1 an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
2 unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
(1) a statement which has two or more possible meanings; (2) a statement whose meaning is unclear. Depending on the circumstances, ambiguity can be negative, leading to confusion or even disaster (the ambiguous wording of a general's note led to the deadly charge of the Light Brigade in the ...
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Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process
1 an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
2 drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
3 doctrine of analogy: the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate
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Antagonist (from Greek ??ta????st?? - antagonistes, "opponent, competitor, rival") is a character, group of characters, or an institution, who represents the opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend. ...
1 adversary: someone who offers opposition
2 a muscle that relaxes while another contracts; "when bending the elbow the triceps are the antagonist"
3 a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug
An "antagonist" is a classification used to describe a muscle that acts in opposition to the specific movement generated by the agonist and is responsible for returning a limb to its initial position.
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Aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. It may be addressed to the audience expressly (in character or out) or represent an unspoken thought. ...
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cacophonic - cacophonous: having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten a sound which is harsh or discordant
1 blare: a loud harsh or strident noise
2 loud confusing disagreeable sounds
Phonaesthetics (from the f???, phone, "voice-sound"; and a?s??t???, aisthetike, "aesthetics") is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty (euphony) or unpleasantness (cacophony) of the sound of certain words and sentences
Cacophony was an American metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Cacophony is often recognized for its technically challenging, neo-classical metal and speed metal elements, as well as featuring two shred guitarists.
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Character- (from the Greek "engraved or stamped mark (on coins or seals), branding mark, symbol") may refer to any sign or symbol
1 fictional character: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
2 quality: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"
3 the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
4 an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
5 a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
6 good repute; "he is a man of character"
7 a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively"
8 a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
engrave or inscribe characters on
9 (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
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Characterization - is the process of conveying information about characters in narrative or dramatic works of art or everyday conversation. Characters may be presented by means of description, through their actions, speech, or thoughts.
1 word picture: a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
2 the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"
3 portrayal: acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
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The climax (from the Greek word “???µa?” (klimax) meaning “staircase” and “ladder”) or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama or when the action starts in which the solution is given.
1 the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
2 the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
3 orgasm: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
4 the most severe stage of a disease
5 culminate: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
6 arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
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conflictive - Causing conflict
conflictional - Of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict
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Connotation is a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language, i.e. emotional association with a word.
1 intension: what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
2 an idea that is implied or suggested
In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier and its signified is inadequate to serve the needs of the community. A second level of meanings is termed connotative
A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning.
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Couplet- is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic couplet
1 couple: two items of the same kind
2 a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
a unit of two consecutive lines of verse rhyming together, usually in the same metre. The couplet is one of the principal units of versification whether as an independent poem or as a stanzaic form in a longer composition
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Denotation- The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes; The primary, literal or explicit meaning of a word, phrase or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated; The intension and extension
1 indication: the act of indicating or pointing out by name
2 reference: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
The definition of a word, apart from the impressions or feelings it creates in the reader. The word "apartheid" denotes a political and economic policy of segregation by race, but its connotations — oppression, slavery, inequality — are numerous
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.Elam (1980, 98). The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: d??µa, dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: d???, dráo). ...
1 play: a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
2 an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
3 the literary genre of works intended for the theater
The Drama was a quarterly arts magazine for contemporary art, design and illustration. It was founded by publisher Joel Speasmaker in 2000 and ran nine issues with the last being published in 2007. Each issue of the magazine revolved around a particular theme or topic
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Dialogue in fiction is a verbal exchange between two or more characters. If there is only one character, who is talking to himself in his mind, it is known as interior monologue.
an art magazine founded and published in Akron, and later Columbus, Ohio. It covered the arts of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, western Pennsylvania, Kentucky and northern Illinois. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_(magazine)
1 a conversation between two persons
2 the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
3 a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek"
4 negotiation: a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians
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Empathy is an instant messaging client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols.
1 understanding and entering into another's feelings
2 Empathy, which literally translates as in feeling, is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings.
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Episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a serial television or radio program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book. The term sometimes applies to works based on other forms of mass media as well, as in Star Wars.
1 a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
2 a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
3 a part of a broadcast serial
4 sequence: film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
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Exposition is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse, along with argumentation, description, and narration. The purpose of exposition is to provide some background and inform the readers about the plot, character, setting, and theme of the essay/story or motion picture.
1 a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
2 exhibition: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
3 an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; "we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background"
4 (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
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Figurative language
is a way of expressing ideas in non-literal or 'plain' form. It can be used to add colour or intensity to a description. For example, metaphors, similes and personification.
A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction, or meaning of the writing for a particular effect. This interruption takes the form of one or more figures of speech such as hyperbole, irony, or simile
Figurative language is writing or speaking that purposefully departs from the literal meanings of words to achieve a particularly vivid, expressive, and/or imaginative image. In Steven Heighton's description of the park entrance at Vimy Ridge, for example, he uses figurative language. ...
Literal and figurative language is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Literal language refers to words that do not deviate from their defined meaning
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Flashback (also called analepsis, plural analepses) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached
1 a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
2 an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
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Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by many different authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story
1 prefiguration: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
2 adumbrative: indistinctly prophetic
A literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story
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Narrator is, within any story (literary work, movie, play, verbal account, etc.), the person who conveys the story to the audience. When the narrator is also a character within the story, he or she is sometimes known as the viewpoint character
One who narrates or tell stories; The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story; The person providing the voice-over in a documentary
1 narration - narrative: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
2 narration - the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"
3 narration - (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
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Image
1 an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
2 persona: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
3 picture: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
4 prototype: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
5 double: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
6 (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined; "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers"
7 render visible, as by means of MRI
8 the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public; "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"
9 visualize: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
10 effigy: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
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Prologue (Greek p??????? prologos, from p??~, pro~ - fore~, and lógos, word), or prolog, is a preface to the story. It sets up the story, giving background details and other miscellaneous information
an introduction to a play
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Stream of consciousness
1 a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
2 the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
Stream of consciousness refers to the flow of thoughts in the conscious mind. The full range of thoughts that one can be aware of can form the content of this stream, not just verbal thoughts
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions.
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Rising action is tha series of events that lead to the climax of the story, usually the conflicts or struggles of the protagonist.
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Point of view
1 a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events"
2 the spatial property of the position from which something is observed
