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| 6668783738 | didactic | Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson |  | 0 |
| 6668783745 | epistolary | A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters |  | 1 |
| 6668783749 | frame story | A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story | 2 | |
| 6690843073 | free-indirect style | a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech | 3 | |
| 6690844938 | gothic | characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion | 4 | |
| 6690845597 | lampoon | a satire in prose or verse ridiculing a person, literary work, etc. | 5 | |
| 6690846216 | loose/cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions | 6 | |
| 6690847657 | malapropism | use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression | 7 | |
| 6690849045 | missive | letter | 8 | |
| 6690849046 | monologue | a long speech monopolizing conversation | 9 | |
| 6690851278 | noble savage | a mythic conception of people belonging to non-European cultures as having innate natural simplicity and virtue uncorrupted by European civilization | 10 | |
| 6690852742 | panegyric | formal or elaborate praise | 11 | |
| 6690853233 | parallel character | character that shares similar characteristics to the protagonist, highlights certain qualities | 12 | |
| 6690854135 | pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion | 13 | |
| 6690855670 | periodic sentence | a usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause | 14 | |
| 6690856817 | tabula rasa | the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions | 15 | |
| 6690857587 | tragic hero | a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering | 16 | |
| 6690859388 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 17 | |
| 6690860236 | arabesque | graceful and flowing | 18 | |
| 6690862044 | acrimonious | bitter or harsh | 19 | |
| 6690862813 | grandiloquent | overly self-assured | 20 | |
| 6690863797 | magnanimous | noble and generous | 21 | |
| 6690865101 | mollifying | pacifying | 22 | |
| 6690866288 | petulant | irritated without reason | 23 | |
| 6690867295 | sardonic | mocking or sarcastic | 24 | |
| 6690868972 | vituperative | harshly critical and irate | 25 |
