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Literary terms
Terms 15-22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| External conflict | a struggle between a character and an outside force |
| Internal conflict | a struggle that occurs within a character |
| Connotation | the feelings, attitudes, and biases associated with a word |
| Denotation | the dictionary definition |
| Denouement | Literally meaning the action of untying, a denouement is the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story. (AKA: the resolution) |
| Dialect | The language peculiar to the members of a particular group or a particular region |
| Diction | word choice |
| Direct characterization | characterization that occurs when the author directly states a character’s traits |