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| 6708802763 | anachronism | an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order in time; some are unintentional | 0 | |
| 6708811775 | aphorism | a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about | 1 | |
| 6708820110 | burlesque | broad parody; will take an entire style or form, such as pastoral poetry, and exaggerate it into ridiculousness | 2 | |
| 6708833906 | caricature | descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of appearance or a facet of personality | 3 | |
| 6708841245 | catharsis | the emotional release that an audience member experiences as a result of watching a tragedy | 4 | |
| 6708852523 | conundrum | a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun; may also be a paradox or difficult problem | 5 | |
| 6708855860 | exemplum | a brief tale used in medieval times to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson | 6 | |
| 6708860998 | foil | a character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character | 7 | |
| 6708867319 | anapest | two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed | 8 | |
| 6708870438 | dactyl | one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed | 9 | |
| 6708873241 | iamb | one unstressed followed by a stressed | 10 | |
| 6708875169 | spondee | two successive stressed syllables | 11 | |
| 6708877284 | trochee | one stressed followed by an unstressed | 12 | |
| 6708879780 | hubris | excessive pride or ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, eventually causing his or her downfall | 13 | |
| 6708886848 | idyll | a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized country life; also called pastoral | 14 | |
| 6708893871 | metonymy | figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated | 15 | |
| 6708903606 | objectivity | an impersonal presentation of events and characters | 16 | |
| 6708910567 | persuasion | one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion; also called argument | 17 | |
| 6708933383 | refrain | a line or group of lines that are periodically repeated throughout a poem | 18 | |
| 6708948250 | regionalism | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot | 19 |
