Vocab Lang

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Exposition

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a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

"the exposition and defense of his ethics"

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Rising Action

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events leading to the climax

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Climax

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the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex

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falling action

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events leading to the resolution

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resolution

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a firm decision to do or not to do something.

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conflict

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a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

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subplot

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a subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work.

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setting

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the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

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mood

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a temporary state of mind or feeling.

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tone

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a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.

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point of view

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a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

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narrator

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a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

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first person

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according to whether they indicate the speaker first person, the addressee second person, or a third party third person.

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third person

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a third party.

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omniscient

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knowing everything.

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limited

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restricted in size, amount, or extent; few, small, or short.

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subjective narrator

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a subject narrator

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objective narrator

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the objective that the narrator gives

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character

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a person who has a role in the book, poem, or play

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protaginist

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the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

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antagonist

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a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

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theme

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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

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reccuring theme

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keeps apperaing

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universal theme

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used for more than one theme

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poetry

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literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

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epic

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a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

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lyric

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expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

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ballad

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a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

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ode

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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

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sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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rhyme scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

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meter

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a poem

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stanza

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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

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couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

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metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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simile

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description

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onomopetiea

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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repitition

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the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

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hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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imagery

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visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

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drama

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an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.

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dialouge

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conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

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stage direction

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an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

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text

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This mandatory attribute specifies the base direction of the element's text content.

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subtext

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an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation.

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aside

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a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

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expository

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intended to explain or describe something.

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text structure

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refers to how the information within a written text is organized.

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sequence

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a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other

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comparison

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the formation of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.

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cause and effect

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the principle of causation.

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problem and solution

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the act of solving a problem, question

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argument

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an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

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support

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give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act.

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Counterargument

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an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.

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refute

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prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.

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Plot

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the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence