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| 13283289221 | Lampoon | Writing that ridicules and satirizes a person in a bitter, scurrilous manner in verse or prose. | 0 | |
| 13283290021 | Legend | A fictional event based on real places and real events of historical importance. | 1 | |
| 13283290738 | Litote | A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. | 2 | |
| 13283290739 | Limerick | A form of light verse that follows a definite pattern: five anapestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth, consisting of three feet, rhyme; and the third and fourth lines, consisting of two feet, rhyme. | 3 | |
| 13283292729 | Local color | Writing that exploits the speech, dress, mannerisms, habits of thought, and topography peculiar to a certain region. | 4 | |
| 13283292730 | Loose Sentence | A sentence grammatically complete before the end. | 5 | |
| 13283293967 | Low comedy | Comedy that lacks seriousness of purpose or subtlety of manner and has little intellectual appeal. | 6 | |
| 13283295251 | Lyric | A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, creating a single, unified expression. | 7 | |
| 13283296128 | Magical Realism | A type of writing where postmodern writers mingle and juxtapose realistic events with fantastic ones or they experiment with shifts in time and setting. | 8 | |
| 13283296627 | Malapropism | An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another. | 9 | |
| 13283297422 | Masculine Rhyme | Rhyme that falls on the stressed concluding syllable of the rhyme words. | 10 | |
| 13283301463 | Meiosis | Intentional understatement for humorous or satiric effect. | 11 | |
| 13283302506 | Melodrama | A work, usually a play, based on a romantic plot and developed sensationally with little regard for motivation and with an excessive appeal to the emotions of the audience. | 12 | |
| 13283302509 | Memoir | A form of autobiographical writing dealing with the recollections of one who has been a part of or who has witnessed significant events. | 13 | |
| 13283305513 | Metafiction | A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of the fiction itself. | 14 | |
| 13283306601 | Metaphor | An analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second. | 15 | |
| 13283307153 | Meter | The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern, or the rhythm established by the regular occurrence of similar units of sound. | 16 | |
| 13283308081 | Mock epic | A literary form that makes fun of the epic by treating a trivial subject in a serious manner or uses the epic formula to make a trivial subject ridiculous by overstating it. | 17 | |
| 13283309136 | Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself. | 18 | |
| 13283311554 | Monologue | Refers to a character speaking aloud to himself or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage | 19 | |
| 13283311555 | Mood | A feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind-especially the predominating atmosphere or tone of a literary work. | 20 | |
| 13283313070 | Motif | A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. | 21 | |
| 13283313852 | Motivation | The reasons, justifications, and explanations for the actions of a character. | 22 | |
| 13283314504 | Mystery | A work in which mystery or terror plays a controlling part. | 23 | |
| 13283315603 | Myth | A traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people in terms of ritual practice, or models of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. It often (but not always) deals with gods, supernatural beings, or ancestral heroes. | 24 | |
| 13283316889 | Mythology | A system of stories about the gods, often explicitly religious in nature that possibly were once believed to be true by a specific cultural group, but may no longer be believed as literally true by their descendants. | 25 | |
| 13283319976 | narrative poem | An account of events; anything that is narrated. | 26 | |
| 13283321866 | Nonfiction | An account, narrative, or representation of a subject which an author presents as fact. | 27 | |
| 13283323021 | Novel | Any extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters. | 28 | |
| 13283324312 | Novella | An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel. | 29 | |
| 13283324819 | Octave | An eight-line stanza. | 30 | |
| 13283325821 | Octet | A group of eight lines of verse. | 31 | |
| 13283325822 | Ode | A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose, and dealing with one theme. | 32 | |
| 13283327669 | Onomatopoeia | Words that by their sound suggest their meaning. | 33 | |
| 13283328439 | Overstatement | General or specific exaggeration; hyperbole. | 34 | |
| 13283329168 | Oxymoron | A self-contradictory combination of words. | 35 |
