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One who speaks in, or writes, allegories.
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Alternative form of apothegmatist [A collector or maker of apothegms.]
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(art) The techniques that make art aspective as opposed to perspective.
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An alias, especially one adopted in order to deceive
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Obsolete form of author. [The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.]
n
The intent of an author as encoded in their work.
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(poetic) A thief or plagiarist.
adj
Abbreviation of colloquial. [(linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.]
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A good conversationalist.
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(debate) in linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which represents the discourse context at a given point in a conversation. The scoreboard is updated by each speech act performed by one of the interlocutors.
adj
Having the quality of a declamation.
adj
Of or related to dialogue.
adj
Related to or having the character of dialogue
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dialogic writing and interactions generally
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An imaginary speech or discussion between two or more.
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(intransitive, archaic, formal) To discourse in dialogue.
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(philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
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(narratology, authorship) A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)
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A person who writes dialogue.
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(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
v
(transitive) To convert into the form of a docudrama.
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A given; in a literary work, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.
n
(countable) An eloquent utterance.
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(historiography) The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.
n
Alternative spelling of epilogue [A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play]
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A person who writes or tells fables.
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A character through which the story is told, and whose perspective the story is told from.
n
the study of formal debate; rhetoric
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A literary technique whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
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Writing for pay without the expectation of receiving credit by name.
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One who explains or makes a commentary.
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(of a film, book, etc.) An appealing idea for a work that can be understandably summarized in a few sentences or less.
n
(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.
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(literature) A representation of someone's thoughts as articulated.
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(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
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Alternative form of intimist [A painter or writer whose art is in the intimism genre]
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A person who writes a memoir.
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A narrative text about narration (storytelling).
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An overarching story having other stories embedded within it.
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A person or a computer program that creates mind maps.
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(theater) A play in the form of a monologue
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(American spelling) Alternative form of monologue [(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.]
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(transitive, rare) To deliver in the form of a monologue.
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(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
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(intransitive) To give a monologue; to soliloquize.
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An actor who performs a monopolylogue
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The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
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One who narrates or tells stories.
adj
Competent in oracy; having good speaking skills.
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(poetic, rare) A word; idle talk.
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A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.
adj
Declamatory in style; in recitative.
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A polylogue, or speech delivered by several persons.
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The official who gives out words to be spelled at a spelling bee and answers questions about their definition, use in a sentence and etymology.
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Alternative spelling of séance [To hold a séance (communication with spirits).]
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Alternative spelling of self-talk [Talk to oneself, whether silent or aloud.]
n
(cartomancy) A card representing a querent, question, or situation.
v
Alternative spelling of soliloquize [(drama) To perform a soliloquy; (of a character) to talk to oneself.]
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(drama) To perform a soliloquy; (of a character) to talk to oneself.
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(drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
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the aggregate of people who speak some language
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(uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
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(linguistics) An act carried out by speech, such as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.
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The craft or activity of writing speeches, usually for delivery by someone else
v
(intransitive) To practice ventriloquism.
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One who favours words or the wording of something over its meaning or the idea behind it.
n
The art or skill of a wordsman; adroit use of language.
adj
(archaic) Inclined to much writing.
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