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10500035257Terza rimaAn interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc.0
10500035258Tetrametera metrical line containing four feet1
10500035259Themethe central idea or unifying generalization implied or stated by a literary work2
10500035260Third-person limited point of viewThis is a point of view in which the narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts of only one character, who is referred to as "he" or "she."3
10500035261Tonethe writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story/poem, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers).4
10500035262Total Meaningthe total experience communicated by a poem5
10500035263Tragedydrama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance6
10500035264Trimetera metrical line containing three feet7
10500035265Triple Metera meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables8
10500035266Trochaic metera meter in which the majority of feet are trochees9
10500035267Trocheea metrical unit consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable10
10500035268Truncationomission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line11
10500035269Understatementa figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants12
10500035270Unhappy endingan ending that turns out unhappily for a sympathetic protagonist13
10500035271VerseMetrical language14
10500035272Villanellea nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain15
10500035273Theater in the RoundThe presentation of plays on a stage surrounded by the audience.16
10500035274Theater of CrueltyDrama that subordinates words to action, gesture, and sound in an effort to overwhelm the spectators and liberate their instinctual preoccupations with crime, cruelty, and eroticism.17
10500035275Theater of the AbsurdAn Avant-garde kind of drama that represents the absurdity of the human condition by abandoning rational devices and realistic form.18
10500035276Tragedy of BloodIt works out the theme of revenge and retribution through murder, assassination, mutilation, and carnage.19
10500035277Tragic FlawThe theory that there is a flaw, error, or defect in the tragic hero that is the cause of his or her downfall.20
10500035278TragicomedyA play that employs a plot suitable to tragedy but ends happily, like a comedy.21
10500035279TranscendentalismA reliance on the intuition and the conscience, a form of idealism; a philosophical romanticism reaching America a generation or two after it developed in Europe.22
10500035280VerisimilitudeThe semblance of truth. The term has been used in criticism to indicate the degree to which a writer faithfully creates the appearance or semblance of the truth.23
10500035281VoltaA shift, a turn in thought: from question to answer, problem to solution.24

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