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| 7117695022 | anastrophe / inversion | change of the natural word order | 0 | |
| 7117695023 | aside | a speech (usually a short comment) made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage | 1 | |
| 7117695024 | blank verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter (usually unrhymed) | 2 | |
| 7117695321 | bombast | inflated, pretentious language used for trivial subjects | 3 | |
| 7117695322 | bard | a poet; in olden times a performer who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment (when capitalized it references Shakespeare) | 4 | |
| 7117695591 | chiasmus | a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses i.e "Exalts his enemies, his friends destroys." | 5 | |
| 7117695597 | heroic couplet | two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter; often the last two lines of a sonnet sharing the meaning of the poem | 6 | |
| 7117695935 | coinage | neologism; invention of a new word | 7 | |
| 7117695936 | dirge | a song for the dead with a tone that is slow, heavy, and melancholy | 8 | |
| 7117696207 | liotes | a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity | 9 | |
| 7117696208 | pun | the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 10 | |
| 7117696209 | invective | a direct verbal assault | 11 | |
| 7117696579 | soliloquy | a speech spoken by character alone on stage meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts (without implying that the character is aware of the audience) | 12 | |
| 7117697991 | sonnet | a form of verse containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter using a prescribed rhyme scheme | 13 | |
| 7117697992 | epic | a narrative poem that tells the adventures of a hero who is larger than life and often considered a legendary figure | 14 | |
| 7117697993 | kenning | a device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of an object is replaced by one of its function or qualities i.e "ring giver" for king or "whale road" for ocean | 15 | |
| 7117698386 | caesura | a pause somewhere in the middle of a line of verse, often but not always, marked by punctuation (common in Anglo-Saxon verse) | 16 | |
| 7117698678 | fantasy | a story containing unreal, imaginary features | 17 | |
| 7117699779 | farce | a comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose | 18 | |
| 7117699935 | black humor | the use of disturbing themes in comedy | 19 |
