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the Latin word for the mask used by actors in the theatre. It has come to mean the speaking voice in any narration, whether this voice be a first-person narrator or a third-person narrator, e.g. the speaking voice in Paradise Lost (Milton) or the voice of Nick in The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald).
to twist the meaning of words or to arrange words and sentences in such a way as to distort the...
when something is extremely unlikely or odd, e.g. Seeing the Prime Minister in a swimming...
the place and time where a story occurs, e.g. South Africa in the 1970s apartheid era, Europe...
the part of a play or story in which tension builds up, leading to the climax. E.g. In Othello,...
a part of speech that names people, things, places, ideas, concepts and qualities. See abstract...