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| 13798838791 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 0 | |
| 13798838792 | Anachronism | something out of place in time | 1 | |
| 13798838793 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects | 2 | |
| 13798838794 | Bathos | when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup | 3 | |
| 13798838795 | black humor | this is the use of disturbing themes in comedy. e.g. two tramps comically debating over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of a tree will support their weight | 4 | |
| 13798838796 | cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 5 | |
| 13798838797 | coinage | the invention of new words | 6 | |
| 13798838798 | dirge | a song for the dead | 7 | |
| 13798838799 | Hubris | excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | 8 | |
| 13798838800 | lament | a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss | 9 | |
| 13798838801 | Parable | like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived | 10 | |
| 13798838802 | pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds. | 11 | |
| 13798838803 | rhapsody | an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 12 | |
| 13798838804 | syncope | contracting or shortening a word by removing internal sounds, syllables, or letters and inserting an apostrophe | 13 | |
| 13798838805 | truism | a way-too-obvious truth | 14 | |
| 13798838806 | Utopia | an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect | 15 | |
| 13798838807 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 16 | |
| 13798838808 | Zeugma | the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings | 17 | |
| 13798838809 | plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow | 18 | |
| 13798838810 | elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. | 19 |
