4776841923 | Baroque | of or relating to a style of architecture, music, and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century | 0 | |
4776843905 | blank verse | unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse | 1 | |
4776846502 | burlesque | an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity | 2 | |
4776851850 | classical | referring to ancient Greek and Roman cultures, especially their art, music, literature, and architecture | 3 | |
4776853418 | comedy | a literary work or production designed to amuse and to end well for the main characters | 4 | |
4776859547 | denouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as for a drama or novel | 5 | |
4776861052 | farce | a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character | 6 | |
4776863395 | free verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern | 7 | |
4776864574 | genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like | 8 | |
4776868493 | Gothic | features desolate, typically romantic settings and macabre or sensational plots with ghosts or supernatural occurrences | 9 | |
4776873326 | lampoon | a usually lengthy verbal picture thoroughly ridiculing an individual | 10 | |
4776883403 | parody | a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing | 11 | |
4776884762 | Rococo | extravagantly or excessively ornate, highly ornamented and florid, especially of music and literature | 12 | |
4776887454 | satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. | 13 | |
4776889301 | thespian | an actor or actress | 14 |
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