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What is the anticlimax?
The turning point, but it is always a let down
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What is a diction?
Word choice for clarity, effectiveness, and precision
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What is a meter?
Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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What is an aside?
Dialogue stated directly to the audience in drama
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What is setting?
The time and place of action
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What is a catastrophe?
The tragic unknotting of a play or story
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What is direct characterization?
An author states exactly the personality of a character
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What is an epithet?
A descriptive word or phrase used to characterize someone or something; a title
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What is a monologue?
Long, uninterrupted speech that is spoken in the presence of other characters
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What is the rhyme scheme?
The pattern of rhymes in a poem
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What is a comedy?
Literary work with a happy ending
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What is a dramatic poem?
It has more ethan one speaker or part of a play
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What is an anecdote?
A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event
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What is a quest?
An archetypal journey or search for something
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What is point of view?
The vantage point from which fa narrative is told
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What is a cliche?
Overused word or phrase
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What is juxtaposition?
Placement of two opposites for the purpose of contrast
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What is a chorus?
A group of actors on stage who typically sing
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What is a simile?
Comparison between two unlike things using like or as
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What is narrative poetry?
Poetry that tells a story
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What is the climax?
Highest point of interest
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What is malapropism?
Comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
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What is a catastrophe?
The tragic unknotting of a play or story
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What is verisimilitude?
Having the appearance of truth: realistic dialect, it sits the time and place
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What is the plot?
A sequence of events in a narrative