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| 226978716 | aesthetic distance | A degree of detachment emotional | |
| 226978717 | Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | |
| 226978718 | Ambiguity | an epression with more than one meaning | |
| 226978719 | Anachronism | something or someone existing outside of its proper time | |
| 226978720 | Analysis | a deeper reading ang understanging the meaning | |
| 226978721 | Anticlimax | a letdown used for a desirable effect of humor or contrast, great build up follow up is trival | |
| 226978722 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | |
| 226978723 | Apollonian | pertaining to the cult of Apollo: having the properties of or preffering classic beauty | |
| 226978724 | archetype | A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras. | |
| 226978725 | aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | |
| 226978726 | baroque | over decorated any ornamentation | |
| 226978727 | bathos | Pathos failed trivial or incongruous | |
| 226978728 | Bildungsroman | a German for a "novel f growth or developement" | |
| 226978729 | Carpe diem | sieze the day | |
| 226978730 | cosmic irony | when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind in general | |
| 226978731 | diction | choice of words | |
| 226978732 | doggerel | verse foll of irregularities due not to skill but to incompetence poetry | |
| 226978733 | dramatic irony | This occurs when the audience or reader knows more than the characters know. | |
| 226978734 | epigram | a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | |
| 226978735 | epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | |
| 226978736 | existentialism | a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions. | |
| 226978737 | explication | the patient unfolding of meanins in a work of literature mechanics of how it works | |
| 226978738 | expressionism | an early twentieth-century art movement that emphasized the artist's personal, subjective expression of inner experiences | |
| 226978739 | form | the design of a thing as a whole , the configuration of all its parts | |
| 226978740 | found poetry | poetry that takes existing texts and refashions them, reorders them, and presents them as poems |
