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- Direct narration Free
Sometimes in works of fiction, the narrator seems to tell the reader what to think. Interpretations of the events and characters are made for the reader. Take for example this passage from Emma by Jane...
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- Diatribe
A diatribe is a severely critical type of discourse, often spoken, characterised by anger directed towards something or someone. ...
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- Dialect
A dialect is a unique and distinguishable combination of vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax. Technically speaking from a linguistic perspective, the only difference between a language and a dialect...
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- Denouement
From the French for 'unknotting', denouement refers to the final unfolding of plot in a literary work. It is at this point that the reader's expectations of what will happen to literary characters are...
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- Denotation
This is the literal, factual meaning of a word. Often it is the meaning or the initial meaning given in a dictionary. Compare with connotation....
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- Crowdsourcing
In a 2006 Wired Magazine article, Jeffo Howe defined 'crowdsourcing' the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group...
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- Connotation
A word's connotation is the aura of emotion that is associated with the word through personal experience. It is the opposite of 'denotation', which is what a word literally stands for. For example, the...
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- Conjunctions
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- Deictic
Words that point in various directions, within a text and beyond it. For example, ‘down there’, ‘this’, ‘that’ etc. Deictic expressions may also point in time, as in ‘now’, ‘then’, and ‘next year’....
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- Couplet
A couplet is, in poetry, a pair of rhymed lines in any metre/meter....