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Point of View (1st and 3rd) Mood/atmosphere irony (verbal, dramatic, situational) Direct and Indirect Characterization verisimilitude (reality and plausibility) Setting 285-290 Style- Diction Anaphora Atmosphere Parallelism Moral-intellectual criticism Universal mythology Blank verse Allegory Antagonist Connotation Beat flashback Beat Decorum Comedy of the absurd Farce Antithesis Universal symbol Compound and complex sentences Dramatic monologue Denouement Blocking agent Comedy of manners Dues ex machina Ballad Alliteration Aside Understatement Stock character Satire Denotation Abstract Concrete Low comedy Marxist lot crit Internal audience Cosmic irony Archetype