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| Ode | A lyric Poem Typically elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that immitates a sound it represents |
| Poetry | The art of rhythimical composition written or spoken for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or, elevated thoughts |
| Tragedy | Any event with a sad or unfortunate outcome |
| Persuasion | The process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic mean |
| Understatement | A form of speech in which a lesser expression is used than what would be expected |
| Blank Verse | A type of poetry distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme |
| Local Color | A literary style that was particularly attentive to the dialect and customs of regional cultures thought to be vanishing in the face of the modern coroporation |
| Paradox | Reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory |
| Oxymoron | Putting two contradictory words together |
| Tall Tale | A story that claims to explains the reason for some natural phenom or illustrates a strong trait in the subject of the tale |
| Narrative | A construct created in a suitable medium of speech writing, that describes a sequence of real or unreal events |
| Pun | The humorous use of a word or phrase as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications or words that are alike in sound but have different meaning |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech that Emplos an associated or closely connected word rather the word itself |
| Epic | A long narrative poem celebrating in stately, formal verse, heroic, or grandiose events or acheivements |
| Dialogue | Conversation given in a written story or play |
| Metaphor | A Rhetorical strategy that describes a first subject as being equal to a second subject in some way |
| Point of View | The related experience of the narrator |
| Figure of Speech | A word or phrase used to language to produce a fanciful or vivid impression |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech where the part is used to represent the whole |
