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Denotation

Literature; Fiction

The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications.

Characterization

Literature; Fiction

The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal characters through their speech, dress, manner, and actions.

Antagonist

Literature; Fiction

A character or force against which another character struggles.

A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. Imagery refers to the pattern of related details in a work. In some works one image predominates either by recurring throughout ...

Foreshadowing

Literature; Fiction

Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.

Foil

Literature; Fiction

A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.

Onomatopoeia

Literature; Fiction

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. The following line from Pope's "Sound and Sense" onomatopoetically imitates in sound what it ...