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6615047931AllegoryThe representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.0
6615054538AnecdoteA short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience's attention.1
6615065744ConventionAn understanding between a reader and a writer about certain details of a story that does not need to be explained.2
6615074615DenouementThe final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.3
6615079654ElegyA poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.4
6615113099EuphonyA succession of words which are pleasing to the ear. These words may be alliterative, utilize consonance, or assonance and are often used in poetry but also seen in prose.5
6615128680DactylA dactylic foot has three syllables beginning with a stressed syllable; the other two unstressed.6
6615135408In medias resA story that begins in the middle of things.7
6615141169MeterThe measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.8
6615144436NovellaA short novel usually under 100 pages.9

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