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- unacknowledged references and quotations which authors make while assuming that readers will recognize the original sources and their meaning to the new context
- allusion
- a complete narrative that can also be applied to a parallel set of situations that may be political, moral, religious, or philosophical
- allegory
- the addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present; also a speech to an abstraction
- apostrophe
- a speech, usually short, delivered to a character by another character or to the audience; the speaker usually reveals his thoughts or plans
- aside
- a narrative poem composed of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimester, rhyming
- ballad
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- blank verse
- seize the day
- carpe diem
- Aristotle's concept that tragedy, by arousing pity and fear, regularizes and shapes the emotions, that that therefore tragedy is essential in civilized society
- catharsis
- the sequence of events in a work
- chronology
- the act of closing or the state of being closed
- closure
- a literary genre, songs of merrymakers, smiles and laughter
- comedy
- words that describe exact conditions or qualities
- concrete
- two line which may be unified by rhyme
- couplet
- resolution; final stage in plot development
- denouement
- in ancient Greek drama, the entrance of a god to unravel problems in a play; today it refers to the artificial and illogical; solution of problems
- deus ex machine
- a literary contrivance, such as a parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect
- device
- language characteristics
- dialect
- the speeches of two or more characters in a play
- dialogue
- word choice, types of words, and the level of language
- diction
- intended to instruct
- didactic
- division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions
- dichotomy
- a long narrative poem elevation character, speech, and action
- epic