3646221361 | Climax | The turning point or high point in a plot | 0 | |
3646221362 | Coincidence | The chance concurrence of two events having a peculiar correspondence between them. | 1 | |
3646221363 | Comedy | A type of drama, opposed to tragedy, having usually a happy ending, and emphasizing human limitation rather than human greatness. | 2 | |
3646221364 | Scornful Comedy | A type of comedy whose main purpose is to expose and ridicule human folly, vanity, or hypocrisy | 3 | |
3646221365 | Romantic Comedy | A type of comedy whose likeable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties from which they are rescued at the end of the play, either attaining their ends or having their good fortunes restored | 4 | |
3646221366 | Comic Relief | In a tragedy, a comic scene that follows a scene of seriousness and by contrast intensifies the emotions aroused by the serious scene | 5 | |
3646221367 | Commercial Fiction | Fiction written to meet the taste of a wide popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such taste. | 6 | |
3646221368 | Conflict | A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plotof a story or drama | 7 | |
3646221369 | Connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition. | 8 | |
3646221370 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant soundsof accented syllables or important words | 9 | |
3646221371 | Continuous form | That form of a poem that in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning | 10 | |
3646221372 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 11 | |
3646221373 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 12 | |
3646221374 | Denotation | The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. | 13 | |
3646221375 | Denouement | The portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries | 14 |
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