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| 4758293568 | Asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words and phrases. Example: "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." | 0 | |
| 4758293569 | Aubade | a poem about morning | 1 | |
| 4758293570 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. EXAMPLE: Animal Farm; Dante's Inferno; Lord of the Flies | 2 | |
| 4758293571 | Autobiography | author's own life story; first- person account | 3 | |
| 4758293572 | Ballad | a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by a dramatic or exciting episode in fairly short narrative; poem written in a song-like stanza form. | 4 | |
| 4758293573 | Carpe Diem | Latin for "Seize the Day." A theme, especially common in lyric poetry, that emphasize that life is short, time is fleeting, and that one should make the most of present pleasures. | 5 | |
| 4758293574 | Bathos | an anticlimax which is unintentional; an unintentional shift from the sublime to the ridiculous which can result from the use of overly elevated language to describe trivial subject matter, or from an exaggerated attempt at pathos which misfires to the point of being ludicrous. | 6 | |
| 4758293575 | Bildungsroman | a novel showing the development of its central character from childhood to maturity. . . psychological approach and movement toward a goal. Example: The Catcher in the Rye | 7 | |
| 4758293576 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme (Shakespeare) | 8 | |
| 4758293577 | Bombast | Elevated language, often pompous and overdone. | 9 |
