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11212004898AccentIn poetry, the stressed portion of a word.0
11212004899AestheticAppealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste1
11212004900Anachronism"Misplaced in time". An aspect of a story that doesn't belong to its supposed time setting2
11212004901AnalogyA comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship.3
11212004902AnticlimaxOccurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.4
11212004903AntiheroA protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities.5
11212004904AtmosphereThe emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene6
11212004905BurlesqueBroad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into rediculousness7
11212004906CaricatureA portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality.8
11212004907ConceitA startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines9
11212004908DoggerelCrude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks10
11212004909ElegyA type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner.11
11212004910EnjambmentThe continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause12
11212004911Feminine rhymeLines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed.13
11212004912ParableA story that instructs.14
11212004913ParallelismRepeated syntactical similarities used for effect15
11212004914PastoralA poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds.16
11212004915Stock characterStandard or cliched character types17
11212004916Tragic flawIn a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise18
11212004917UtopiaAn idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace.19

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