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| 6987621791 | Archetype | A term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader. In literature, characters, images, and themes that symbolically embody universal meanings and basic human experiences, regardless of when or where they live. | 0 | |
| 6987621792 | Caricature | Ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things for comic reasons. It may be pictorial or literary | 1 | |
| 6987621793 | Character Foil | A character foil is a character whose behavior, attitudes, and opinions are in contrast to those of the protagonist. He/She helps the reader to understand better the character of the protagonist. | 2 | |
| 6987621794 | Character Sketch | A character sketch is a description of a character's moral and personality qualities using nouns, adjectives, and specific examples and quotations from the story. It does not normally describe the character's physical appearance or dress, except briefly. | 3 | |
| 6987621795 | Confidant (confidante) | A confidante is a trusted friend of the protagonist who shares his or her thoughts, feelings, and intentions. | 4 | |
| 6987621796 | Conventional Character | A character with traits that are expected or traditional (similar to stock character or stereotype) | 5 | |
| 6987621797 | Direct Characterization | This is character revelation through the author's or narrator's comments | 6 | |
| 6987621798 | Dynamic Character | This character, often the protagonist, undergoes a significant, lasting change, usually in his or her outlook on life. | 7 | |
| 6987621799 | Epiphany | a moment of significant realization that happens to the main character, usually at the end of the story. | 8 | |
| 6987621800 | Flat Character | This is a limited character, usually a minor character who has only one apparent quality. | 9 | |
| 6987621801 | Indirect Characterization | This is character revelation through what the character says, does, thinks, and how he reacts. The reader is left to infer from these details what the character is like | 10 | |
| 6987621802 | Interior Monologue | A literary technique used in poetry and prose that reveals a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings. A type of Stream of Consciousness. | 11 | |
| 6987621803 | Metamorphosis | A radical change in a character, either physical or emotional | 12 | |
| 6987621804 | Motivation | This is what causes a character to do what he or she does. Circumstances and temperament usually determine the actions of a character; however, characters must also have sufficient and plausible motivation in order for a reader to find a story realistic or effective. | 13 | |
| 6987621805 | Round Character | A round character is a realistic character having several sides to his/her nature. | 14 | |
| 6987621806 | Static Character | This is a character who does not change in the course of a story. Often protagonists who are static characters fail to achieve their goals or are defeated by their unwillingness to change or adapt. | 15 | |
| 6987621807 | Stereotype | Conforming to a fixed, conventional mental picture. | 16 | |
| 6987621808 | Stock Character | Stereotyped or stock characters are familiar figures in fiction such as the "hard-boiled" private investigator, the absent-minded professor, the "stiff upper lip" officer, and the imperiled heroine from Victorian melodrama. | 17 | |
| 6987621809 | Stream-of-Consciousness | A modern technique for depicting thoughts and feelings of a character in an apparently natural way without logic or interruption. The author using stream-of-consciousness deliberately includes important details relevant to plot, character, and theme in the stream-of-consciousness. | 18 | |
| 6987621810 | Dyspeptic | gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable. | 19 | |
| 6987621811 | Euphemism | A polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant | 20 | |
| 6987621812 | Paroxysms | any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion | 21 | |
| 6987621813 | Satire (adj, satiric) | a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles | 22 | |
| 6987621814 | Understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 23 | |
| 6987621815 | Verbal Irony | Occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to. It is an intentional product of the speaker and is contradictory to his/her emotions and actions. | 24 | |
| 6987621816 | Types of Verbal Irony | Sarcasm, Exaggeration or Overstatement, Understatement | 25 | |
| 6987621817 | Abrogation | the act or an instance of abrogating, or repealing | 26 | |
| 6987621818 | Ambivalence | uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. | 27 | |
| 6987621819 | Belligerent | warlike; given to waging war. | 28 | |
| 6987621820 | of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose | 29 | ||
| 6987621821 | Cistern | a reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid | 30 | |
| 6987621822 | Execrable | utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent | 31 | |
| 6987621823 | Ignominy | disgrace; dishonor; public contempt; shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this | 32 | |
| 6987621824 | Mollified | to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease | 33 | |
| 6987621825 | Pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful | 34 | |
| 6987621826 | Remunerative | profitable | 35 | |
| 6987621827 | Sentimental | expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia | 36 | |
| 6987621828 | Vacillating | not resolute; wavering; indecisive; hesitating | 37 | |
| 6987621829 | Hyperbole | Use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect | 38 | |
| 6987621830 | Metaphor | Makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics | 39 |
