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| 6718967783 | ballad | a long, narrative poem, usually in regular meter and rhyme; typically has a naive folksy quality that sets it apart from epic poetry | 0 | |
| 6718967784 | pathos | when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity or sympathy | 1 | |
| 6718970106 | black humor | the use of disturbing themes in comedy; morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world, ordinary characters or situations exaggerated beyond normal limits of satire or irony | 2 | |
| 6718972744 | bombast | pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language; one tries to be eloquent by using the largest, most uncommon words | 3 | |
| 6718974664 | burlesque | broad parody, one that takes a style or form, such as tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness; achieves its effects through caricature, ridicule, and distortion, devoid of any ethical element; interchangeable with parody | 4 | |
| 6718976577 | cacophony | using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds--the sound of midday traffic | 5 | |
| 6718978281 | cadence | the beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense e.g., iambic pentameter; can be gentle and pulsing, conversational, and even vigorous, marching | 6 | |
| 6718979484 | canto | the name for a section division in a long work of poetry; divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel--like in Dante's Inferno | 7 | |
| 6718980563 | caricature | a portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 8 | |
| 6718981387 | catharsis | the expending of negative emotions (typically pity and fear) -- experienced by the audience watching a tragedy unfold | 9 | |
| 6718987268 | chorus | the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it | 10 | |
| 6718988453 | classic | typical; an accepted masterpiece | 11 | |
| 6718988454 | classical | refers to the arts of ancient Greece and Rome and the qualities of those arts | 12 | |
| 6718989574 | coinage | creation of a new word, usually one invented on the spot | 13 | |
| 6718991492 | colloquialism | a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English; slang words, informal English | 14 | |
| 6718992455 | conceit | refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines | 15 | |
| 6718994109 | connotation | what a word suggests or implies, not its literal meaning--i.e., dark meaning dangerous instead lacking of light | 16 | |
| 6718995140 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 17 | |
| 6718997099 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds WITHIN words--"A flock of sick, black-checkered ducks." | 18 | |
| 6718998300 | couplet | a pair of lines in verse that end in rhyme | 19 |
