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| allegory | a story in which the characters ,settings ,an devents stand for abstract or moral concepts |
| allusion | a reference to the Bible, mythology , literature, science , sports , pop culture , history; a person, place or thing whereby meaning is associated or developed immediately through its context |
| antithesis | parallel structure used to present a balanced contrast |
| comic relief | in order to alleviate the tension or seriousness of a work, a brief episode of humor is used to relieve the tension |
| connotation | all the ideas and emotions and things associated with a particular word |
| diction | the writer’s word choice |
| dramatic unities | time place and action of a play |
| elegy | a serious poem whose tone is mournful; traditionally reflecting on death |
| heroic couplet | two lines next to each that rhyme, written in iambic pentameter |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for an outlandish effect |
| irony | a discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens |
| meter | a generally regualr pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| mock epic | comedy arising from the discrepancy between the subject and its treatment: the trivial is made grandiose; inflated language and rich images and classic conventions are used to ridicule |
| neoclassical | new classical, looking back to Greek and Roman works |
| occasional poem | a poem written for a specific occasion |
| ode | an ambition pompous poetic utterance expressing a public emotion; a generally complex, long lyric poem on a serious subject |
| parody | imitating and making fun of |
| pastoral | a type of poem that depicts rustic life in idyllic, idealized terms |
| satire | ridicule of a subject in order to evoke social change; it ridicules human weakness, vice or folly in order to bring about social reform |
| understatement | the opposite of exaggeration whereby the minimalism makes the remark ludicrous |
| wit | a quality of speech or writing that combines verbal cleverness with keen perception, especially of the the incongruous |
| zeugma | a yoking, when a verb has two objects or two subjects, or an adjective modifying two nouns, whereby only one is appropriate,and the other ridiculous |
