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| 10499458731 | Epic | a poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture; it uses elevated language and grand, high style. Prime examples of epic poetry include The Iliad, the Odyssey, and Paradise Lost. A more contemporary example could be George Lucas's Star Wars. | 0 | |
| 10499468499 | Exposition | That part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play. | 1 | |
| 10499473860 | Extended metaphor | a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work, also known as a conceit. | 2 | |
| 10499475968 | Falling Action | that part of plot structure in which the complications of the rising action are untangled. This is also known as the denouement. | 3 | |
| 10499478003 | Farce | a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor. Shakespeare's a Midsummer's Night's Dream is filled with farce. The more contemporary Catch-22 uses farce as did peter Sellers in the Pink Panther of Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. | 4 | |
| 10499514114 | Foreshadowing | To hint at or present an indication of the future beforehand. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says, before meeting Juliet: ...my mind misgives Some consequences yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels and expire term Of a despised life closed to my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death | 5 | |
| 10499524658 | Formal diction | language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal. Such diction is often used in narrative epic poetry. | 6 | |
| 10499529665 | Flashback | retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative. Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is written as a flashback to specific events that took place in the adult narrator's childhood. | 7 | |
| 10499536997 | Free verse | poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non rhyming lines. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass uses free verse. | 8 | |
| 10499542133 | Genre | a type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry or belles letters. | 9 |
