| A | B |
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| ELEGY | a tradition lyric poem formally lamenting the death of a person |
| END RHYME | the rhyming of words at the ends of lines of verse |
| EPIC | long narrative poem originally handed down in oral tradition |
| EPITHET | a descriptive name or title applied to a person, as Richar the "Lion-hearted" |
| ESSAY | a brief piece of nonfiction which presents a personal point of view either through informal discourse or formal analysis and argument |
| FABLE | a story with a moral in which animals talk and act like human beings |
| FALLING ACTION | the action in a narrative which follows the climax and represents the working out of the decisive action of the climax |
| FICTION | imaginative prose writing giving an interpretation of life |
| FIGURES OF SPEECH | devices, such as metaphors and similes, for achieving special menaing |
| FLASHBACK | interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened earlier in the story or before the story opens |
| FOOT | the smallest metrical division, one accented/one unaccented |
| FORESHADOWING | hints and clues of events to come later |
| FREE VERSE | poetry without meter or regular rhyme scheme |
| GENRE | a type of literary work |
| HYPERBOLE | extreme exaggeration |
| IMAGERY | descriptive language used to re-create sensory experiences |
| INTERNAL RHYME | a rhyme within a line |
| IRONY | implies the opposite of what is literally expressed |
| LYRIC | short poem expressing author's thoughts and feelings |
| METAPHOR | implied comparison of two unlike objects or ideas |
