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| 9615000308 | accent | stressed portion of words | 0 | |
| 9615000894 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned | 1 | |
| 9615003143 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces | 2 | |
| 9615004679 | anthropomorphism | inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation | 3 | |
| 9615007404 | anticlimax | an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect | 4 | |
| 9615010228 | aphorism | short and witty saying | 5 | |
| 9615014270 | assonance | repeated use of vowel sounds | 6 | |
| 9615014271 | bathos | when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup | 7 | |
| 9615017106 | bombast | pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 8 | |
| 9615018724 | burlesque | broad parody, one that takes a style or a form such a tragic drama and exaggerates it into ridiculousness | 9 | |
| 9615021559 | cacophony | using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds | 10 | |
| 9615022335 | canto | the name for a section division in a long work on poetry | 11 | |
| 9615023035 | coinage/neologism | new word, invented on the spot | 12 | |
| 9615025291 | decorum | when a character's speech is style according to their social standing and in accordance with the occasion | 13 | |
| 9615026646 | dirge | a song for the dead | 14 | |
| 9615027168 | doggerel | crude, simplistic verse | 15 | |
| 9615027882 | elegy | type of poem that meditates on death or morality in a serious, thoughtful maner | 16 | |
| 9615028719 | epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 17 | |
| 9615029229 | farce | something funny | 18 | |
| 9615030095 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 19 | |
| 9615030817 | foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character | 20 | |
| 9615032248 | in medias res | in the midst of things | 21 | |
| 9615032955 | inversion | switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase | 22 | |
| 9615034879 | lament | poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss | 23 | |
| 9615035883 | loose and periodic sentences | loose sentence = complete before its end periodic sentence = not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase | 24 | |
| 9615038744 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 25 | |
| 9615040736 | metonym | a word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with | 26 | |
| 9615043217 | plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow | 27 | |
| 9615044010 | requiem | a song of prayer for the dead | 28 | |
| 9615045240 | suspension of disbelief | accept the limitations of staging and supply the deals with imagination | 29 | |
| 9615047538 | syncope | contracting words by removing internal sounds, syllables, or letters and inserting an apostrophe | 30 | |
| 9615049923 | traversty | distortion, corruption, or terribly false representation of something | 31 | |
| 9615052333 | truism | a way too obvious truth | 32 | |
| 9615053645 | verisimilitude | appearance of being real or true | 33 | |
| 9615053646 | zeugma | the use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings | 34 |
