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| 5594392297 | heroic couplet | (in verse) a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters. |  | 0 |
| 5594479968 | juxtaposition | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 1 | |
| 5594514724 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. |  | 2 |
| 5594537491 | in media res | in or into the middle of a sequence of events as in a literary narrative | 3 | |
| 5594548136 | cantankerous | bad-tempered; quarrelsome | 4 | |
| 5594554698 | didactic | Intended to teach; inclined to teach excessively | 5 | |
| 5594576967 | antithesis | a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. it emphasizes the idea of contrast by parallel structures of the contrasted phrase or clauses. |  | 6 |
| 5594626849 | allegory | A narrative in which characters, figures, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities | 7 | |
| 5594660579 | synecdoche | a literary device where a part of something is used to represent the whole and vice versa. |  | 8 |
| 5594689526 | nostalgia | a longing for something past; homesickness | 9 | |
| 5594696570 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |  | 10 |
| 5594718209 | pragmatic | practical; dealing with actual facts and reality | 11 | |
| 5594728896 | laudable | Worthy of praise | 12 | |
| 5594734648 | derision | Contemptuous ridicule or mockery | 13 | |
| 5594742685 | verisimilitude | similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing | 14 | |
| 5594753916 | apposition | placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. "The mountain was the earth, her home." | 15 | |
| 5594799137 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. |  | 16 |
