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4960862093ForeshadowingThe use of clues to hint at what is going go happen later in the plot.0
4960862094Frame storyAn introductory native within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell individual stories.1
4960862095Free versePoetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme.2
4960862096GothicA term used to describe literary works that contain primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elements.3
4960862097HaikuA brief, unrhymed, three-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s.4
4960862098HumanismAn intellectual movement of the Renaissance that restored the study of the classics and focused on examining human life here and now.5
4960862099HyperboleA figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a voice effect.6
4960862100Iambic pentameterA line of poetry made up of five iambs.7
4960862101ImageryLanguage that appeals to the senses8
4960862102Incremental repetitionA device widely used in ballads whereby a line or lines are repeated with slight variations from stanza to stanza9
4960862103Industrial revolutionThe period of social and economic change following the replacement of hand tools by machines and power tools, which allowed manufacturer to increase their production and save money.10
4960862104In medias resThe technique of starting a story in the middle and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier.11
4960862105IronyA contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality12
4960862106KenningIn Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event directly.13
4960862107Laissez FaireAn economic policy based on the idea what economic forces should be allowed to operate freely and without government regulation.14

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