| A | B |
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| catastrophe | outcome of a literary or dramatic work (for tragedy, death or ruin; for comedy, happy marriage) |
| elegaic | in classical prosody, a dactylic hexameter couplet |
| catharsis | the purging of an audience's emotions through a work of art |
| onomatopoeic | adaptation of the sound of a word to its meaning for rhetorical effect |
| panegyric | a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing; a formal eulogy |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose (as opposed to poetry) |
| parable | a brief story teaching some moral lesson, attitude, or religious principle |
| prosody | the study or science of poetic meters & versification |
