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characterization

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The means of presenting and developing a character, shown through the author’s description, the character’s actions or thoughts, or other characters’ actions or thoughts.

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Chorus

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Originally, a group of masked dancers who chanted lyric hymns at religious festivals in ancient greece. In modern drama, it is usually a single person who comments on the action

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Comedy

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In drama, the representation of situations that are designed to delight and amuse and that end happily.

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Conceit

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A figure of speech that establishes an elaborate parallel between unlike things.

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Concrete language

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Language that describes particular or specific persons, places, or things.

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Conflict

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The struggle of a protagonist, or main character, with forces that threaten to destroy him or her. Struggle creates suspense and is usually resolved at the end of the narrative.

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Connotation

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The associative and suggestive meanings of a word, in contrast to its literal or denotative meaning.

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Consonance

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Repetition of the final consonant sounds in stressed syllables.

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Couplet

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A pair of rhymed lines

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Dactyl

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A three-syllable metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables

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Denotation

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The literal dictionary definition of a word, without associative and suggestive meanings.

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Denouement

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The final revelations that occur after the main conflict is resolved; literally, the “untying” of the plot following the climax.