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Aesthetic: appealing to the senses
Allusion: reference to another work or famous figure
Analogy: a comparison
Antihero: protagonist with markedly unheroic characteristics
Assonance: the repeated use of vowel sounds
Bombast: pretentious exaggeratedly learned language
Cacophoney: deliberately harsh, awkward sounds
Cadence: beat of poetry in general sense
Coinage: invention of a new word
Catharsis: "cleansing" emotion audience experiences
Canto: name for a section division in a long work of poetry
Dirge: a song for the dead
Epitaph: lines that commemorate the deat at their burial place
Euphony: when sounds blend harmoniously
Foil: secondary character who is there to highlight the characteristics of the main character (usually by contrast)
In medias res: beginning in the middle (The Odyssey)
Inversion: switching around words' places in a sentence on purpose
Lampoon: a satire
Metonym: word which stands for something else (50 cows 50 HEAD of cattle)
Oxymoron: phrase composed of opposites, contradictions (moron-sentence confused, ox)
Paradox: situation which contradicts itself (P-place ox )
Pastoral: poem with tranquil nature
Plaint: a poem or speech expressing sorrow
Pun: usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings
Rquiem: song for the dead
Satire: consists of hyperbole, target, irony, absurdity
Travesty: grotesque parody
Zeugma: The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings (he closed the door and his heart on his lost love)
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