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| 239726196 | conflict | The struggle between opposing forces that determines the action in drama and most narrative fiction | |
| 239726197 | epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought | |
| 239726198 | epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing to emphasize a characteristic quality or attribute | |
| 239726199 | farce | A light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirica comedy and improbably plot | |
| 239726200 | flashback | in fiction and film, a way of presenting scences or incidents that took place before the opening scene | |
| 239726201 | foreshadowing | in literature, the technique of giving hints or clues that suggestor prepare for events that occur later in the work | |
| 239726202 | gothic | barbaric; from the middle ages | |
| 239726203 | hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence | |
| 239726204 | imagery | The making of "pictures in word'" appeals to the senses of taste, smell, heaing, and touch, and to internal feeling, as well as to the sese of sight. | |
| 239726205 | irony | incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result | |
| 239726206 | local color | the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants in writing | |
| 239726207 | metonymy | A figure or speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | |
| 239726208 | naturalism | realism in art or literature; a theory of practice in literature emphasizing scientific observation of life without dealization and often including elements of determinism | |
| 239726209 | non sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly reltated to anything previously said | |
| 239726210 | novella | work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel | |
| 239726211 | parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle | |
| 239726212 | parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule | |
| 239726213 | picaresque novel | A term usually applied to a novel whose principal character is low-brow rogue who lives by his or her wits and who becomes involvedin one predicament after another | |
| 239726214 | renaissance | the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, | |
| 239726215 | romanticism | a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
