4196457003 | Anthithesis | a rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of grammatical arrangement of words clause or sentences example) they promised freedom but gave slavery | 0 | |
4196464584 | Aphorism | a shorty pith statement of generally accepted truth of sentiment Example all people should strive to learn before they die what they are running ffrom and to and why | 1 | |
4196471980 | Apollian | In constrast to dionysian it reeres to most noble and golike qualities of human nature | 2 | |
4196474613 | Apostrephe | a rhetorical device in which a speaker a dresses a person who is not present | 3 | |
4196476967 | Archetyype | abstract or ideal conception | 4 | |
4196481575 | Assonance | the repition of two or more vowwel sounds, he is as madd as a hatter | 5 | |
4196486601 | ballad | a narative verse or poem that tells a story through singing or recitiation | 6 | |
4196497464 | bard | a poet in olden times performer who told herioc stories with musical encompiant | 7 | |
4196505738 | bathos | overdone sentimentaity | 8 | |
4196507087 | bibliography | lit of works cited | 9 | |
4196508756 | bildungroman | a german word referring to a novel structure as a series of events that hero travels in quest of a goal. | 10 | |
4196513055 | Blank verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter | 11 | |
4196515443 | bombast | inflated pretentious language | 12 | |
4196517135 | burlesque | a work literate mnt to ridiicual a subjet a grotesque imitation | 13 | |
4196523382 | cacophony | grating innharmonious sounds | 14 | |
4196525468 | ceasura | q pase somewhere in the middle of a verse often marked by by punction the blood dimmed tide is looseed, and everywhere | 15 | |
4196631360 | canon | he works consider most important in the national literature or period | 16 |
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