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Antagonist |
The character who stands in direct opposition to or in conflict with the central character |
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Aside |
In drama, a conversation by which actors speak briefly to the audience, supposedly without being heard by the other actors on stage |
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Assonance |
Close repetition of middle vowel sounds within a line of poetry |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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Ballad |
Poem in verse form (has meter) that tells a story often adventure or romance; many ballads are made into songs |
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Blank verse |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Climax |
Highest point of suspense |
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Complication |
An entangling of affairs early in the development of the plot of a play or narrative that must be unravelled in the resolution at the end; also known as the problem within the plot |
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Conflict |
Struggle between two opposing forces that determines the action in drama or narratives |
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Connotation |
Feelings associated with a word |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonant sounds (not limited to the first as is alliteration) |
