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| 7380757694 | dramatic monologue | a literary, usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character, often in relation to a critical situation or event, in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener. | 0 | |
| 7380773097 | bildungsroman | a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist - typically male - aka apprenticeship novel or "coming-of-age story" | 1 | |
| 7380797654 | cacophony | harsh sounding words (opposite of euphony) | 2 | |
| 7380806685 | doppelganger | a ghostly double of a living person; shadowing figure | 3 | |
| 7380819900 | double entendre | a word or expression used in a given context so that it can be understood in two ways, especially when one meaning is risque. | 4 | |
| 7380834472 | dues ex machina | the use of artificial means to resolve the plot of a play | 5 | |
| 7380837986 | euphony | pleasant sounding words (opposite of cacophony) | 6 | |
| 7380842140 | genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, or technique | 7 | |
| 7380854750 | picaresque | a genre of satiric prose fiction depicting the realistic, often humorous adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society | 8 | |
| 7381011440 | pedantic | characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship | 9 | |
| 7381015676 | poetic justice | the rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice, often in an especially appropriate or ironic manner commonly found in novels, plays, and poetry | 10 | |
| 7381026595 | roman a clef | novel in which actual persons, places, or events are depicted in a fictional guise | 11 | |
| 7381033727 | syllogism | a three-part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise | 12 | |
| 7381046273 | vernacular | the everyday speech of a particular country or region, often involving nonstandard usage | 13 | |
| 7381054409 | verisimilitude | the appearance of semblance of truth; likelihood; probability | 14 | |
| 7468581126 | absolutism | the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government. | 15 | |
| 7468581127 | a priori | from cause to effect; from a general law to a particular instance; valid independently of observation; existing in the mind prior to and independent of experience, as a faculty or character trait; presumed, without explanation or analysis | 16 | |
| 7468581128 | anarchy | absence of government | 17 | |
| 7468581129 | bi-partisan | both sides working together | 18 | |
| 7468581130 | bureaucracy | officials using fixed rules and a hierarchy of authority characterized by red tape, delay, and/or inaction | 19 | |
| 7468581131 | censure | to criticize sharply; an official reprimand as by a legislative body of one of its members | 20 | |
| 7468581132 | charlatan | a faker; a fraud; a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order | 21 | |
| 7468581133 | clandestine | secret; covert; characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious | 22 | |
| 7468581134 | debunk | to expose a sham or falseness by presenting a truthful explanation | 23 | |
| 7468581135 | dialect | art of practice of a logical discussion as of truth of a theory or opinion | 24 | |
| 7468581136 | doublespeak | language deliberately constructed to disguise its actual meaning | 25 | |
| 7468581137 | Gestapo | the German state secret police during the Nazi regime | 26 | |
| 7468581138 | laissez-faire | the theory or system of government that upholds the autonomous character of the economic order, believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs; the practice or doctrine of noninterference in the affairs of others, especially with reference to individual conduct or freedom of action | 27 | |
| 7468581139 | recession | a downtown in economic activity marked by two consecutive quarters in which there is a decline in real gross national product (GNP) | 28 | |
| 7468581140 | truthiness | a satirical term coined by Stephen Colbert used to describe people stating concepts they want to believe, rather than the facts; truthiness is felt emotionally and disregard actual evidence or intellectual examination | 29 |
