Circumlocution: the beating of the bush of words, utilized to make speech seem like there are just far too many words being used.
Classicism: any piece of art, writing or music that has ties back to ancient Greece or Rome.
Cliché: A term that is stale and overused by society.
Climax: The peak of a story. The good part of the story.
Colloquialism: informal speech of the zeitgeist. Today yolo and swag are colloquialistic words of my generation.
Comedy: For plays it describes a story with an outcome without death. Nowadays it means that the story better be funny to the audience.
Conflict: A point of tension.
Connotation: the meaning received from a word or phrase that is not its dictionary definition.
Contrast: When two things are opposing.
Denotation: The definition of a word or phrase given by a dictionary.
Denouement: The point of resolution after a story.
Dialect: The forms of speech used by characters in a particular setting. In uneducated poor regions characters usually have terrible grammar while rich educated characters have good grammar.
Dialectics: formal debate over universal truths
Dichotomy : A break between two opposing things
Diction: The types of words used in literature. Like the dialect of the writer.
Didactic: the act of teaching things to others.
Dogmatic: school
Elegy: A mournful eulogy in the form of poetry or music.
Epic: A really really really really really really really really really long poem used to explain the journey of a hero or nation.
Epigram: smart-aleck aphorism.
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