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| 4142433758 | Abstract | Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points | 0 | |
| 4142433759 | Academic | Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis. | 1 | |
| 4142435058 | Accent | In poetry, the stressed portion of a word | 2 | |
| 4142435059 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste. | 3 | |
| 4142435935 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 4 | |
| 4142438055 | Abecedarian | Arranged alphabetically. | 5 | |
| 4142440709 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 6 | |
| 4142440710 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure. | 7 | |
| 4142442163 | Ambibranch | A poetic foot -- heavy, light, light | 8 | |
| 4142444459 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 9 | |
| 4142444460 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 10 | |
| 4142445504 | Anapest | A poetic foot -- light, light, heavy | 11 | |
| 4142445505 | Aubade | Morning love song (as opposed to a serenade, which is in the evening), or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak | 12 | |
| 4142448334 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 13 | |
| 4142454518 | Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 14 | |
| 4142454519 | Anastrophe | The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 15 | |
| 4142455992 | Anecdote | A short Narrative | 16 | |
| 4142455993 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. | 17 | |
| 4142457964 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification. | 18 | |
| 4142460315 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 19 | |
| 4142460316 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 20 | |
| 4142461676 | Antagonist | A person or a group of people who opposes a protagonist. | 21 | |
| 4142462950 | Aphorism | A short and usually witty saying. | 22 | |
| 4142462951 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. | 23 | |
| 4142463761 | Archaism | A thing that is very old or old-fashioned. | 24 | |
| 4142463762 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 25 | |
| 4142463763 | Aspect | A particular part or feature of something. | 26 | |
| 4142464861 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul." | 27 | |
| 4142466169 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene. | 28 | |
| 4142483346 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naïve folksy quality. | 29 | |
| 4142483347 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 30 | |
| 4142484585 | Bathos | Writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker. | 31 | |
| 4142484586 | Black Humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. | 32 | |
| 4142485570 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 33 | |
| 4142485571 | Burlesque | Broad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into ridiculousness. | 34 | |
| 4142486787 | Blues Poem | Blues Poems are poems that often talk about the struggles and depressions of the writer and his surrounding. Like the blues songs from the African- American singer, blues poems also show the fight and the determination to overcome the said difficulty | 35 | |
| 4142486788 | Bildungsroman | A German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal. | 36 | |
| 4142492230 | Benediction | The utterance or bestowing of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service | 37 | |
| 4152988936 | Cacophony | In poetry, deliberately harsh awkward sounds. | 38 | |
| 4152988937 | Cadence | The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense. | 39 | |
| 4152988938 | Canto | The name for a section division in a long work of poetry. | 40 | |
| 4152988939 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 41 | |
| 4152988940 | Caesura | A break between words within a metrical foot. | 42 | |
| 4152988941 | Catharsis | Drawn from Aristotle's wtitings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play. | 43 | |
| 4152988942 | Character | A person in a novel, play, or movie. | 44 | |
| 4152988943 | Chorus | In Greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it. | 45 | |
| 4152988944 | Classic | Typical, or an accepted masterpiece. | 46 | |
| 4152988945 | Coinage | A new word, usually one invented on the spot. | 47 | |
| 4152988946 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. | 48 | |
| 4152988947 | Complex (dense) | Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words; subtleties and variations; multiple layers of interpretation; meaning both explicit and implicit. | 49 | |
| 4152988948 | Conciet (controlling image) | A starting or unusual metaphor, or a developed and expanded upon several times. | 50 | |
| 4152988949 | Comic Relief | Comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections. | 51 | |
| 4152988950 | Conflict | May be internal or external—that is, it may occur within a character's mind or between a character and exterior forces, (or point(s) of view) | 52 | |
| 4152988951 | Connotation | Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies | 53 | |
| 4152988952 | Convention | Defining features of particularliterary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play. | 54 | |
| 4152988953 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in a rhyme. | 55 | |
| 4152988954 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words. | 56 | |
| 4152988955 | Cliché | A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 57 | |
| 4152988956 | Cinquain | A five-line stanza. | 58 | |
| 4152988957 | Closed Form | Also known as fixed form, consists of poemsthat follow patterns of lines, meter, rhymes and stanzas, the poet follows specific rules to fit a model. | 59 | |
| 4152988958 | Climax | The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 60 | |
| 4152988959 | Complication | An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. It builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in aliterary work. | 61 | |
| 4159969013 | Dactyl | A poetic foot -- light, light, heavy. | 62 | |
| 4159969014 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 63 | |
| 4159969015 | Denouement | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. | 64 | |
| 4159969016 | Deus Ex Machina | An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. | 65 | |
| 4159969017 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 66 | |
| 4159969018 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. | 67 | |
| 4159969019 | Decorum | The requirement that individual characters, the characters' actions, and the style of speech should be matched to each other and to the genre in which they appear. | 68 | |
| 4159969020 | Dirge | A mournful song, piece of music, or poem. | 69 | |
| 4159969021 | Dissonance | A lack of harmony among musical notes. | 70 | |
| 4159969022 | Doggerel | Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm. | 71 | |
| 4159969023 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that is inherent in speeches or asituation of a drama and is understood bythe audience but not grasped by thecharacters in the play. | 72 | |
| 4159969024 | Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. | 73 | |
| 4159969025 | Dialogue | Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. | 74 | |
| 4175390517 | Elegy | a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an _____to someone you have loved and lost to the grave. | 75 | |
| 4175390518 | Epic | a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. | 76 | |
| 4175393214 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 77 | |
| 4175394629 | Epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 78 | |
| 4175394630 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 79 | |
| 4175398407 | Exposition | the writer's way to give background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story. | 80 | |
| 4175402999 | Epistle/Epistolary | relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters. | 81 | |
| 4175403000 | Elision | The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together. | 82 | |
| 4175404256 | Elements | parts of a story: theme, conflict, climax, etc. | 83 | |
| 4175406876 | Epitaph | a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone. | 84 | |
| 4175406877 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 85 | |
| 4175408206 | Explicit | stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt. | 86 | |
| 4189688242 | Fable | a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. | 87 | |
| 4189688243 | Figurative Language | languagethat uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. | 88 | |
| 4189688244 | Flashback | a sudden and vivid memory of an event in the past. | 89 | |
| 4189688245 | Foot | group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables. | 90 | |
| 4189688246 | Foreshadowing | a warning or indication of a future event. | 91 | |
| 4189688247 | Form | an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" | 92 | |
| 4189688248 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 93 | |
| 4189688249 | Foil | the character serves to highlight one or more attributes of another character, often the protagonist, by providing a contrast. | 94 | |
| 4189688250 | First Person | point of view where the story is narrated by one character at a time. | 95 | |
| 4189688251 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables. | 96 | |
| 4189688252 | Farce | Comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. | 97 | |
| 4189688253 | Falling Action | the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end. | 98 | |
| 4189688254 | Falling Meter | Refers to trochees and dactyls. A stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables) | 99 | |
| 4191758339 | Gothic | genre of literature and film that combines fiction, horror, death and romance | 100 | |
| 4191758340 | Genre | category of literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. | 101 | |
| 4191759686 | Homily | commentary that follows a reading of scripture. | 102 | |
| 4191759687 | Hubris | excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. | 103 | |
| 4191760102 | Hyperbole | 1.exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 104 | |
| 4226644115 | In Media Res | into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. | 105 | |
| 4226644116 | Implicit | implied though not plainly expressed. | 106 | |
| 4226644117 | Imperfect Rhyme | a rhyme in which there is only a partial matching of sounds. | 107 | |
| 4226644118 | Iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | 108 | |
| 4226644119 | Interior Monologue | a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts. | 109 | |
| 4226644120 | Invocation | the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority. | 110 | |
| 4226644121 | Inversion | the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted. | 111 | |
| 4226644122 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 112 | |
| 4226644123 | Impressionism | a theory or practice in painting especially among French painters of about 1870 of depicting the natural appearances of objects by means of dabs or strokes of primary unmixed colors in order to simulate actual reflected light. | 113 | |
| 4226644124 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 114 | |
| 4226644125 | Idyll | an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one. | 115 | |
| 4236141583 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 116 | |
| 4236141584 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 117 | |
| 4244092001 | Lament | a passionate expression of grief or sorrow. | 118 | |
| 4244092002 | Lampoon | publicly criticizing someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm. | 119 | |
| 4244092003 | Limited Omniscient | similar to the omniscient point of view, but it is a limitedviewpoint. The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. | 120 | |
| 4244092004 | Loose Sentence | a sentence that does not end with thecompletion of its main clause, but continueswith one or more subordinate clauses orother modifiers. | 121 | |
| 4244092005 | Lyric Poetry | a type of emotional songlike poetry,distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry. | 122 | |
| 4251017756 | Masculine Rhyme | rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is stressed. | 123 | |
| 4251017757 | Melodrama | a dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions | 124 | |
| 4251017758 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 125 | |
| 4251017759 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept. | 126 | |
| 4251017760 | Meter | unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. | 127 | |
| 4251017761 | Monologue | long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. | 128 | |
| 4251017762 | Motif | distinctive feature or dominant idea in a literary composition. | 129 | |
| 4251017763 | Magical Realism | literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy. | 130 | |
| 4251017764 | Metaphysical Poetry | describes a loose group of English lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by speculation about topics such as love or religion. | 131 | |
| 4272470668 | Nemesis | the inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall. / enemy. | 132 | |
| 4272470669 | Narrator | a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. | 133 | |
| 4272470670 | Narrative Poem | poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse. | 134 | |
| 4272470671 | Objectivity | state or quality of being true even outside of a subject's individual biases, interpretations, feelings, and imaginings. | 135 | |
| 4272470672 | Objective | relating to, or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition. | 136 | |
| 4272470673 | Octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet. | 137 | |
| 4272470674 | Open Form | consists of poems that do not follow patterns of lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas. | 138 | |
| 4272470675 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 139 | |
| 4272470676 | Omniscient | the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which adheres closely to one character's perspective. | 140 | |
| 4272470677 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. | 141 | |
| 4272470678 | Opposition | resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument. | 142 | |
| 4272470679 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. | 143 | |
| 4288362135 | Parable | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. | 144 | |
| 4288362136 | Paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. | 145 | |
| 4288362137 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 146 | |
| 4288362138 | Parenthetical Phrase | an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage. | 147 | |
| 4288362140 | Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 148 | |
| 4288362141 | Point of View | the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. | 149 | |
| 4288362142 | Pastoral | a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. | 150 | |
| 4288362143 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 151 | |
| 4288362144 | Pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness. | 152 | |
| 4288362145 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable. | 153 | |
| 4288362146 | Periodic Sentence | a stylistic device employed at the sentence level, described as one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase. | 154 | |
| 4288362147 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 155 | |
| 4288362148 | Plaint | a complaint; a lamentation. | 156 | |
| 4288362149 | Prelude | a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. The prelude may be thought of as a preface. | 157 | |
| 4288362150 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. | 158 | |
| 4288362151 | Pyrrhie | A poetic foot -- light,light | 159 | |
| 4288362152 | Parallel Plot | two plots share almost equal footing. This happens when strong protagonists carry each plot. | 160 | |
| 4288362153 | Plot | the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. | 161 | |
| 4288362154 | Persona | the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others. | 162 | |
| 4288444820 | Paraphrase | a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else. | 163 | |
| 4291752206 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. | 164 | |
| 4291752207 | Requiem | Mass in the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons. | 165 | |
| 4291752208 | Refrain | a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. | 166 | |
| 4291752209 | Rhapsody | an epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time. | 167 | |
| 4291752210 | Rhetorical Question | a question that you ask without expecting an answer. The question might be one that does not have an answer. | 168 | |
| 4291752211 | Rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 169 | |
| 4291752212 | Romanticism | an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. | 170 | |
| 4291752213 | Repetition | the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. | 171 | |
| 4291752214 | Rising Meter | move from an unstressed syllable to a stressed syllable. anapestic and iambic meters. | 172 | |
| 4320587707 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 173 | |
| 4320587708 | Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. | 174 | |
| 4320587709 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 175 | |
| 4320587710 | Style | a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed. | 176 | |
| 4320587711 | Symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 177 | |
| 4320587712 | Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. | 178 | |
| 4320587713 | Stock Characters | a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. | 179 | |
| 4320587714 | Subjectivity | refers to how someone's judgment is shaped by personal opinions and feelings instead of outside influences. | 180 | |
| 4320587715 | Scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. | 181 | |
| 4320587716 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. | 182 | |
| 4320587717 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. | 183 | |
| 4320587718 | Subplot | a subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work. | 184 | |
| 4320587719 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. | 185 | |
| 4320587720 | Stream of Conciousness | a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. | 186 | |
| 4320587721 | Subjunctive Mood | expresses a condition which is doubtful or not factual. | 187 | |
| 4320587722 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet. | 188 | |
| 4320587723 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 189 | |
| 4320587724 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | 190 | |
| 4320587725 | Subtext | an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation. | 191 | |
| 4320587726 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 192 | |
| 4320587727 | Sestina | a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. | 193 | |
| 4320587728 | Synesthesia | the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. | 194 | |
| 4320587729 | Scapegoat | A person or group that is made to bear blame for others. | 195 | |
| 4320587730 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. | 196 | |
| 4327723717 | Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. | 197 | |
| 4327723718 | Thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 198 | |
| 4327723719 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 199 | |
| 4327723720 | Transition | the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. | 200 | |
| 4327723721 | Tragic Flaw | literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. | 201 | |
| 4327723722 | Trimeter | a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet. | 202 | |
| 4327723723 | Tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme. | 203 | |
| 4327723724 | Tragic Hero | a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. | 204 | |
| 4327723725 | Trochee | a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. | 205 | |
| 4327723726 | Tetrameter | a verse of four measures. | 206 | |
| 4327723727 | Travesty | a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something. | 207 | |
| 4327723728 | Truism | a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting. | 208 | |
| 4337223626 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 209 | |
| 4337223627 | Unreliable Narrator | a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. | 210 | |
| 4337223628 | Utopia | strictly describes any non-existent society 'described in considerable detail. | 211 | |
| 4337223629 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 212 | |
| 4337223630 | Voice | express (something) in words. | 213 | |
| 4350866130 | Zeugma | A figure if speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses. | 214 |
