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| echelon | the printing in poetry that goes up and down the page like a ladder |
| echo verse | poetry in which the closing syllables of a word in one line, are repeated in the following line |
| ecologue | Greek for "selection" |
| ecphonema | an outcry or exclamation |
| edition | the entire numbers of a printed and bound copy of a work completed in a single typesetting |
| effect | the total impression or emotional response to a literary work |
| eiron | a basic comic character in Greek drama |
| Eisteddfod | a Welsh poem or song |
| elegiac | from the Greek meaning "lament" |
| elision | the slurring or omission of an unstressed syllable in a line of poetry |
| elipsis | the omission of one or more words in a line of verse |
| empiricism | the belief that rules of conduct come from experience and not theory |
| enallage | the substitution of one grammatical form for another--"to have a good laugh"--"to duck an appointment" |
| Enchiridion | a handbook |
| End-stopped line | a line where the word and the meter coincide "day...ray" or "sign...dine" |
| English Sonnet | made up of three quatrains followed by one couplet |
| abab cdcd efef gg | rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet |
| enjabment | run-on-lines in poetry |
| Ennead | any set on nine |
| enthymeme | a statement that omits a major premise, such as "children should be seen and not heard" |
| epanalepsis | the repetition at the end of a clause that ocurred at the beginning, "Blood hath brought blood...." |
| epanodos | the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning and middle, "I will prepare...blood, and blood shall pusue thee:..." |
| ephemera | printed matter that is not intended to last for a long time |
| epic simile | an elaborated comparison |
| epideictic poetry | poetry written for special occasions |
| epigram | a pithy saying "pretty is as pretty does" |
| epigraph | an inscription on a headstone or statue |
| epiphany | the appearance or manifestation of a divine being |
| epistle | any letter |
| epistrophe | the repetition of words at the end of lines of poetry "..to whom I gave the ring...for whom I gave the ring" |
| epitatsis | the rising action in drama |
| epitome | an summary; a miniature representation of a subject |
| eponym | repeats a word or phrase without a break; ..."An when he falls, he falls like Lucifer..." |
| errata | a mistake |
| euhemerism | explaining myths as exaggerations of human experiences |
| eulogy | a formal speech or writing which praises a person |
| euphony | pleasant or pleasing words or sounds |
| exegesis | an explanation of a writing or text |
| exemplum | a moralized tale--like a sermon |
| exergasia | a single point made over and over in different ways; "nix, naught, nada, zip, zilch" |
| exordium | the first seven parts of a classic or formal speech |
| eye dialect | the misspelling of a word to suggest a specific dialect; "Ah cain't cum" |
| eye rhyme | words that appear to rhyme; "match and watch" |
| euphemism | where indirect statements replace direct statements; "in a family way" instead of "pregnant" |
