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Figurative Language
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Language employing figues of speech
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figures of speech
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antagonist
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character or force that comes into conflict w/ the protagonist
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bad main character
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catharsis
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purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions especially through a work of art, as of tradgedy or music
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greek to cleanse
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climax
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the tensest moment of the plot
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highest
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comedy
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a story that ends happily
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:-)
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exposition
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the basic situation which introduces the characters, setting, and usually the story's main conflict
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introducer
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farce
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a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in farfetched silly situations
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:-P
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hero
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a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired, for his brave deeds and noble qualities
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hercules
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hubris
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excessive pride
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pride
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protagonist
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the main character in fiction or drama
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good guy
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understatment
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a figure of speech that consists of saying lees than one means
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less
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wordplay
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clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit; a play on words; pun
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choose one
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dynamic character
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character which changes in an important way as a result of the story's action
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changing due to action
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epic poetry
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long, narritive poems which relate the great deeds of a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
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hero
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epic simile
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extended simile, usually found in the context of an epic
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simile poem
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epithet
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an adjective or discriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing
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adjective
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fable
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a very breif story in the prose or verse that teaches moral
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moral
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fiction
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prose writing that includes invented material and that does not claim to be factually true
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not true
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first person narrative
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story in which the narrator is a character in a story
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1st per.
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