| 4960862093 | Foreshadowing | The use of clues to hint at what is going go happen later in the plot. | 0 | |
| 4960862094 | Frame story | An introductory native within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell individual stories. | 1 | |
| 4960862095 | Free verse | Poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme. | 2 | |
| 4960862096 | Gothic | A term used to describe literary works that contain primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elements. | 3 | |
| 4960862097 | Haiku | A brief, unrhymed, three-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s. | 4 | |
| 4960862098 | Humanism | An intellectual movement of the Renaissance that restored the study of the classics and focused on examining human life here and now. | 5 | |
| 4960862099 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a voice effect. | 6 | |
| 4960862100 | Iambic pentameter | A line of poetry made up of five iambs. | 7 | |
| 4960862101 | Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses | 8 | |
| 4960862102 | Incremental repetition | A device widely used in ballads whereby a line or lines are repeated with slight variations from stanza to stanza | 9 | |
| 4960862103 | Industrial revolution | The 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 | |
| 4960862104 | In medias res | The technique of starting a story in the middle and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier. | 11 | |
| 4960862105 | Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality | 12 | |
| 4960862106 | Kenning | In Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event directly. | 13 | |
| 4960862107 | Laissez Faire | An economic policy based on the idea what economic forces should be allowed to operate freely and without government regulation. | 14 |
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