10379169250 | Apollonian | Opposite of Dionysian, refers to noble, godlike qualities of human nature/behaviour | 0 | |
10379170882 | apostrophe | Speaker addresses a person or personified thing that isn't present e.g., the streets of Manhattan, love, etc. | 1 | |
10379172580 | bathos | Insincere or overdone sentimentality | 2 | |
10379174397 | bildungsroman | Story with series of events where hero goes on a quest for a goal | 3 | |
10379176147 | burlesque | literature mean to ridicule/imitate | 4 | |
10379178687 | caesura | pause in the middle of a verse, usually with punctuation | 5 | |
10379179559 | conceit | witty/ingenious thought, fanciful idea, usually in figurative language | 6 | |
10379180804 | denoument | resolution that happens at the end of the work | 7 | |
10379181496 | Dionysian | Sensual, pleasure-seeking impulses | 8 | |
10379183658 | Epigram | concise witty statement | 9 | |
10379184876 | farce | comedy with nonsensical disregard for seriousness, although it has serious, scornful purpose | 10 | |
10379188302 | in media res | narrative that starts at a critical point rather than beginning | 11 | |
10379189880 | litote | Understatement using negative of contrary "not bad" | 12 | |
10379243384 | mood | The emotional tone felt by the reader that is created from diction, detail, themes, settings, events, etc. | 13 | |
10379246540 | tone | author's attitude towards the subject | 14 |
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