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5236528372Indirect characterizationThe author reveals to the reader what the character is like by the way he/she looks, dresses, speaks, & thinks. Also, by how other characters respond to them.0
5236575784Direct characterizationThe author tells us directly what a character is like ( ex.: sneaky, mean, etc...)1
5236599250Static characterA character who doesn't change much.2
5236606437Dynamic characterA character who changes in some important way.3
5236612010Flat characterA character with only 1 or 2 personality traits.4
5236617112Round characterA complex character (has more dimensions to his/her personality.5
5236805182ChiasmusIn poetry, a rhetorical balance such as, "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike."6
5236907567Cliche'An overused word or phrase.7
5236912212ColloquialismEvery day words or phrases which are considered informal & inappropriate for formal writing.8
5236919607ComedyA story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the characters.9
5236930126ConceitAn elaborate, extended metaphor.10
5236939348Confessional poetryPoetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.11
5236945201ConflictThe struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.12
5236951283External conflictConflicts between 2 people or man vs. nature or man vs. society.13
5236961195Internal conflictConflict within a person's mind (man vs. himself).14
5236967448ConnotationAssociations & emotional overtone attached to a word or phrase.15
5236975272Couplet2 consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.16
5236985264DialectA way of speaking that has become associated with a certain social group.17
5236994174DictionA speaker or writer's choice of words.18
5237001648DidacticA form of fiction or non-fiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral.19

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