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AP lang and comp week five

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239726196conflictThe struggle between opposing forces that determines the action in drama and most narrative fiction
239726197epigrama concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought
239726198epithetAn adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing to emphasize a characteristic quality or attribute
239726199farceA light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirica comedy and improbably plot
239726200flashbackin fiction and film, a way of presenting scences or incidents that took place before the opening scene
239726201foreshadowingin literature, the technique of giving hints or clues that suggestor prepare for events that occur later in the work
239726202gothicbarbaric; from the middle ages
239726203hubrisexaggerated pride or self-confidence
239726204imageryThe 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.
239726205ironyincongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
239726206local colorthe presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants in writing
239726207metonymyA figure or speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
239726208naturalismrealism in art or literature; a theory of practice in literature emphasizing scientific observation of life without dealization and often including elements of determinism
239726209non sequiturA statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly reltated to anything previously said
239726210novellawork of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel
239726211parablea usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle
239726212parodya literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule
239726213picaresque novelA 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
239726214renaissancethe transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century,
239726215romanticisma 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
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