13926262523 | Anthropomorphism | when inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation | 0 | |
13926284987 | Burlesque | A burlesque is broad parody, one that takes a style or a form such as tragic drama and exaggerates it into ridiculousness. | 1 | |
13926320048 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, and melancholy. | 2 | |
13926339209 | Doggerel | crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 3 | |
13926349074 | Enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 4 | |
13926365410 | Masculine Rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (aka, regular old rhyme). | 5 | |
13926770074 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | 6 | |
13926780555 | Verisimilitude | The appearance of being real or true, | 7 | |
13926786625 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings. | 8 | |
13926804063 | Travesty | The distortion, corruption, or terribly false representation of something. | 9 |
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