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| 4033898253 | Light Verse | A variety of poetry meant to entertain or amuse, but sometimes with a satirical thrust | 0 | |
| 4033902575 | Litotes | A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity | 1 | |
| 4033907519 | Loose sentence | A sentence that follows the customary word order of English sentences, i.e.,subject-verb-object. The main idea of the sentence is presented first and is then followed by one or more subordinate clauses | 2 | |
| 4033919152 | Lyric Poetry | Personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speakers thoughts and feelings about the subject | 3 | |
| 4033925919 | Maxim | A saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth | 4 | |
| 4033927388 | Melodrama | A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response | 5 | |
| 4033931671 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 6 | |
| 4033935652 | Metaphysical poetry | The work of poets, particularly those of the seventeenth century, that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life | 7 | |
| 4033951837 | Meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry | 8 | |
| 4033951838 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated | 9 | |
| 4033951839 | Middle English | The language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500AD | 10 | |
| 4033955465 | Naturalism | A term often used as a synonym for realism; also a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak ad pessimistic | 11 | |
| 4033961889 | Non Sequitur | A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 12 | |
| 4033966269 | Novella | A work of fiction of roughly 20,000 to 50,000 words-longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel | 13 | |
| 4033976287 | Mock Epic | A parody of traditional epic form. it usually treats a frivolous topic with extreme seriousness, using conventions such as invocations to the Muse. action-packed battle scenes, and accounts of heroic exploits | 14 | |
| 4033993402 | mode | The general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a work of literature | 15 | |
| 4033996251 | Montage | A quick succession of images or impression used to express an idea | 16 | |
| 4034001681 | Mood | The emotional tone in a work of literature | 17 | |
| 4034003352 | Moral | A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 18 | |
| 4034007386 | Motif | A phase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature | 19 | |
| 4034014129 | Muse | One of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts. The imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer | 20 | |
| 4034017848 | Myth | An imaginary story that has become an accepted part of cultural or religious tradition of a group or society. They are often used to explain natural phenomena. Almost every culture has one of these to account for the creation of the world it inhabitants. | 21 | |
| 4033949348 | Meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry | 22 | |
| 4033949349 | Metonymy | 23 |
