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The movements and speech of characters
action
the use of initial sounds which are the same
alliteration
a short narrative song written in stanzas
ballad
the central idea of a story
theme
a comparison in which human qualities are given to animals
personification
a speech by one character
soliloquy
a narrative in which the characters are symbols
allegory
a group of lines in poetry
stanza
going backward in time
flashback
a comment made to the audience
aside
a group of two rhyming lines
couplet
a play that ends happily
comedy
a play that ends unhappily
tragedy
the use of words which appeal to our senses
imagery
a fourteen-line poem
sonnet
a struggle between opposing forces
conflict
the correspondence of sounds
rhyme
a main character
protagonist
the arrangement of events in a story
plot
the physical background in which a story takes place
setting
an opposing force to the protagonist
antagonist
an imaginative prose narrative
short story
a song sung at Christmas
carol
prose or poetry which uses actors
drama
words that mean the opposite of their meaning
irony