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a serious or witty contrast between expectation and reality
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anachronism
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a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
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anecdote
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the spoken words between characters in a story or play
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dialogue
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a commonly recurring literary device, theme, motif, or cliché
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irony
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a short, interesting story about a real incident or person
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narrative
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the main character in a story
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oxymoron
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a phrase combining contradictory words (cruel kindness)
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protagonist
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a person or object appearing out of its proper time period
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trope
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