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| 7376699502 | elegy | a meditative poem in the classical tradition of certain Greek and Roman poems, which deals with more serious subjects (e.g. justice, fate, or providence). These may include elegiac motifs, reminding the reader of the transitory nature of life. These can be mournful, lamenting poems | 0 | |
| 7376723738 | end-stopped | a line that has a natural pause at the end (period, comma) | 1 | |
| 7376729458 | enjambed | the running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line, a run on line. | 2 | |
| 7376736555 | epic | a long, grand narrative poem about the brave, exemplary deeds of ancient heroes. A "primary" epic the oldest type, based upon oral tradition; a "literary" epic is written down from the start. Examples of the first type include Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Anglo Saxon epic, Beowulf; examples of the second type include Virgil's the Aeneid, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost | 3 | |
| 7376759422 | epistolary novel | a novel in the form of letters which pass between the main characters (The Screwtape Letters) | 4 | |
| 7376766921 | epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Also called antistrophe is the counterpart to anaphora. | 5 | |
| 7376775512 | epithet | a picturesque tag or nickname associated with a certain character. Epithets can serve as a mnemonic device to remember and distinguish different characters. It is also an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 6 | |
| 7376801565 | essay | a short work of nonfiction prose in which a writer attempts to fulfill a specific purpose, as represented by the basic types or forms of essay | 7 | |
| 7376806080 | analytical essay | an attempt to identify an author's purpose and to evaluate his or her success in achieving it | 8 | |
| 7376811257 | argumentative essay | an attempt to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way based upon an appeal to reason (logos) | 9 | |
| 7376817146 | descriptive essay | an attempt to enable an audience to feel a certain way by using words to create a mood or emotion | 10 | |
| 7376822876 | expository | an attempt to enable an audience to understand something unfamiliar through a clear explanation which sets forth a number of connected facts | 11 | |
| 7376828922 | narrative | an attempt to enable an audience to understand something unfamiliar through a compelling story which sets forth a series of connected events | 12 | |
| 7376837534 | persuasive essay | an attempt to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way based upon emotional appeals (pathos) | 13 | |
| 7376844743 | explication | a detailed explanation of something (a poem) | 14 | |
| 7376847618 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy or comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 15 | |
| 7376853005 | euphemism | the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one | 16 | |
| 7376858024 | figurative language | descriptive language in which one thing is associated with another, through the use of simile, metaphor, or personification | 17 | |
| 7376865153 | foot | the basic unit of meter consisting of a group of two or three syllables. Scanning or scansion is the process of determining the prevailing foot in a line of poetry | 18 | |
| 7376882613 | foreshadowing | hints of future events through unusual circumstances in the present | 19 | |
| 7376887915 | frame story | the literary device of creating a larger story for the purpose of combining a number of shorter stories in a unity (story within a story) | 20 | |
| 7376899376 | free verse | a type of poetry which avoids the patterns of regular rhyme or meter. Rhyme may be used, but with great freedom. There is no regular meter or line length. The poet relies instead upon diction, imagery and syntax to create a coherent whole. | 21 | |
| 7376911868 | genre | a distinct classification in literature. A classification according to what different works have in common, in their structure and treatment of a subject. | 22 | |
| 7376921822 | heroic couplet | one of the most common forms of English poetry. It consists of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter which together express a complete thought. | 23 | |
| 7376927990 | hyperbole | exaggeration for effect | 24 | |
| 7376931302 | imagery | lively description which appeals to other sensory experience. Any figures of speech such as similes and metaphors to visualize a mood, idea, or character. Can involve all the senses, but usually involves the sense of sight | 25 | |
| 7376945282 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 26 | |
| 7376948010 | invective | speech or writing that abuses, denounces. It can be directed against a person, cause, idea or system | 27 | |
| 7376952941 | irony | using a word or situation to mean the opposite of its usual or literal meaning, usually done in humor, sarcasm, or disdain. A contradiction between what something appears to man and what it really means | 28 | |
| 7376963948 | verbal irony | when a character says one thing but means something else (sarcasm) | 29 | |
| 7376966451 | dramatic irony | when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know | 30 | |
| 7376972828 | juxtaposition | the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development | 31 |
