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| Farce | a light, dramatic composition characterized by broad satirical comedy and a highly improbable plot |
| Figurative Language | language that contains figures of speech such as similes and metaphors in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal |
| Foil | a character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character |
| Folklore | traditional stories, songs, dances and customs that are preserved among a people |
| Foot | the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry |
| Foreshadowing | the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs later in the work |
| Free verse | poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without rhyme |
| Genre | a type of literary work, such as a novel or poem; there are also subgenres, such as science fiction novels, within larger genres |
| Gothic | referring to a type of novel that emerged in the eighteenth century that uses mystery, suspense, and sensational and supernatural occurrences to evoke terror |
| Hubris | the excessive pride or amibition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impnding doom, eventually causing his or her downfall |
| Humor | anything that causes laughter or amusement |
| Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis |
| Imagery | words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture |
| Interior monologue | writing that records the conversations that occurs inside a character's head |
| Internal rhyme | a rhyme occuring within a line of poetry |
