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the use of events and characters as symbols

adjective

considering something such as a god, animal, or object as having human features or qualities

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a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to one that is silly or ordinary

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the way in which a writer creates characters in a book, play, film etc

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someone or something that solves a situation that seemed impossible to solve in a sudden and unlikely way, especially in a book, play, film etc

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a way that a writer, artist etc creates a particular effect or makes people have a particular reaction

an American spelling of dialogue

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the words that characters speak in a book, play, or film

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a conversation between characters in a book, play, or film

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a situation in which an audience knows more about what is happening in a play or film than the characters do

verb

to make the characters in a story seem real

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a way of writing a story as if it happened to you

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a part of a book, film, or play that tells you what happened during an earlier time

verb

to deal with the progress or development of someone or something in a book, film, or television programme

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the use of words and phrases in literature to create an image of something

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a piece of writing in which a writer expresses what a character in a novel or story is thinking

if a writer kills off someone in a book, play, film, or television programme, they make them die in the story

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the use of metaphors in literature

verb

to make the story in a book, film etc develop in a particular way

verb

to show a particular quality in the form of a person

noun

the freedom to change facts or events or to ignore rules when you are writing something, in order to communicate your meaning more clearly

verb

to show something by featuring it in a film, book, play etc

noun

the events in a book, film etc

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the thoughts of a character in a book that are expressed as they happen

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a use of a word or expression in an unusual way to help a writer to achieve an effect

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a problem that writers have when they cannot start or continue with a piece of writing because they have no more ideas

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