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| Folk Song | a traditional song that has been passed down orally |
| Folk Tale | a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people |
| Foreshadowing | to indicate or suggest something, usually something unpleasant, that is going to happen |
| Free Verse | verse without a fixed metrical pattern, usually having unrhymed lines of varying length |
| Gothic | belonging to a genre of fiction characterized by floom and darkness, often with a grotesque or supernatural plot unfolding in an eerie or lonely location such as a ruined castle |
| Haiku | a form of Japanese poetry iwth 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllable, often describing nature or a season |
| Hero | hte principal male character in a story, play,film, etc. |
| Hyperbole | deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect |
| Iambic Pentamete | the most common rhythm in English poetry, consisting of five iambs in each line |
| Imagery | the figurative language, especially metaphors and similes, used in poetry, plays, and other literary works |
