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| 11178490274 | Existentialist | A work of literature which reflects upon absurd or meaningless existence. Example: Albert Camus's The Stranger | 0 | |
| 11178494687 | Farce | Generally, today this word indicates broad humor. However, in the past, it had a more specific meaning: a comedy (play) involving ridiculous actions and dialogue with the purpose of exaggerating, rather than imitating life. Example: The Importance of Being Earnest | 1 | |
| 11178508478 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by the final two syllables, often the final syllable is unstressed. Example: lines ending with passion and fashion. | 2 | |
| 11178512841 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. Iambic is the most popular form of this. | 3 | |
| 11178516017 | Free verse | Borrowed from the French verse libre, this term refers to poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. | 4 | |
| 11178521232 | Genre | A category of a particular kind of artistic form, style, or content. | 5 | |
| 11178528331 | Gothic (Gothic Novel) | A form of literature appearing in the 17th century and was quite popular into the century. Typical elements of this kind of literature are: gloomy, mysterious castles, the supernatural, noises in the attic, a young damsel in distress morally or physically. Example Anne Radcliff's The Mysteries of Udolpho. | 6 | |
| 11178541178 | Heroic couplet | Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter. An example of this can be seen in one of Shakespeare's sonnets: "For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings" (Sonnet 29). | 7 | |
| 11178559730 | Hyperbole | Deliberate overstatement or exaggeration. | 8 | |
| 11178561494 | Imagery | The use of language to form mental images, it is based on one or all of the five senses. Example: Dante is known for this explicit and horrific language in "The Inferno," which depicts sinners running over filth chassed by wasps and hornets. | 9 |
