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| 7165880233 | anticlimax | when a story builds up but the ending is a letdown | 0 | |
| 7165882049 | antihero | a hero with negative qualities | 1 | |
| 7165883837 | apostrophe | the act of talking to someone that isn't there | 2 | |
| 7165884281 | Archaism | old fashioned language | 3 | |
| 7165886913 | aside | breaking the fourth wall | 4 | |
| 7165887246 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 5 | |
| 7165887934 | ballad | lyrical poem with 16 lines and has a folksy feel | 6 | |
| 7165891155 | black humor | use of disturbing themes in poetry | 7 | |
| 7165891539 | blank verse | rhyme but no meter | 8 | |
| 7165891963 | bombast | loud speech | 9 | |
| 7165891964 | burlesque | a parody that takes a style of tragic drama but exaggerates it into ridiculousness | 10 | |
| 7165893503 | cacophony | loud harsh sound | 11 | |
| 7165894047 | cadence | rhythm of a poem | 12 | |
| 7165894048 | canto | section or division in a long work of poetry | 13 | |
| 7165894740 | caricature | verbal exaggeration of some part of a person's character | 14 | |
| 7165895420 | catharsis | cleansing of emotion | 15 | |
| 7165896037 | chorus | group of citizens that stand outside the main action and comment | 16 | |
| 7165896802 | coinage | a new word that is accepted | 17 | |
| 7165897315 | conceit | startling or unusual metaphor developed over several lines | 18 | |
| 7165897831 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words rather than in the beginning of words | 19 | |
| 7165898340 | dirge | song for the dead | 20 | |
| 7165898725 | dissonance | the grating of incompatible sounds | 21 | |
| 7165899634 | doggerel | crude, simplistic verse often in singsong rhyme | 22 | |
| 7165901056 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker says something to a silent audience | 23 | |
| 7165901772 | enjambment | continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 24 | |
| 7165902472 | euphony | sounds that blend harmoniously | 25 | |
| 7165903712 | farce | extremely broad humor, a funny play or comedy | 26 | |
| 7165904368 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their last two syllables- (i.e-running and gunning) | 27 | |
| 7165905382 | foil | secondary character that reveals the characteristics of the main character through contrast | 28 | |
| 7165906362 | foot | basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry | 29 | |
| 7165907400 | free verse | no rhyme or meter | 30 | |
| 7165907762 | Gothic | mysterious and gloomy writing | 31 | |
| 7165909350 | In Media Res | latin for "in the middle of things"; when a story starts in the middle of action | 32 | |
| 7165909753 | interior monologue | mental talking that goes on inside a character's head (sort of like stream of consciousness) | 33 | |
| 7165913237 | inversion | switching the customary order of elements in a phrase or line | 34 | |
| 7165914378 | lampoon | satire | 35 | |
| 7165914379 | loose sentence | main clause in front of the sentence and subordinate clause at the end | 36 | |
| 7165915810 | periodic sentence | subordinate clause in the front with the main clause at the end | 37 | |
| 7165916425 | lyric | type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings for the world; it is used to describe tone and describes a sweet, emotional melodiousness | 38 | |
| 7165916776 | masculine rhyme | rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 39 | |
| 7165917728 | melodrama | form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very very good while the villain is mean and rotten, the heroine is pure | 40 |
