Literary+Devices


 * Poetry Terms:** [[file:Poetry Terms.doc]]

Ballad A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tail or legend which often has a repeated refrain.

Ballade Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five. All stanzas end with the same one line refrain.

Blank verse A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and is often unobtrusive. The iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of speech.

Burlesque Poetry that treats a serious subject as humor.

Cinquain Poetry with five lines. Line 1 has one word (the title). Line 2 has two words that describe the title. Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling, and line 5 has one word which recalls the title.

Classicism Poetry which holds the principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.

Couplet A couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines.

Dramatic monologue A type of poem which is spoken to a listener. The speaker addresses a specific topic while the listener unwittingly reveals details about him/herself.

Elegy A sad and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.

Epic An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure.

Epigram A very short, ironic and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term is derived from the Greek epigramma meaning inscription.

Epitaph A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased.

Epithalamium (Epithalamion) A poem written in honor of the bride and groom.

Free verse (vers libre) Poetry written in either rhyme or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.

Haiku A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five morae, usually containing a season word.

Horatian ode Short lyric poem written in two or four-line stanzas, each with its the same metrical pattern, often addressed to a friend and deal with friendship, love and the practice of poetry. It is named after its creator, Horace.

Iambic pentameter One short syllabel followed by one long one five sets in a row. Example: la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH

Idyll (Idyl) Poetry that either depicts a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bye gone age.

Irregular (Pseudo-Pindaric or Cowleyan) ode Neither the three part form of the pindaric ode nor the two or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode. It is characterized by irregularity of verse and structure and lack of coorespondence between the parts.

Italian sonnet A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba followed by six lines with a rhyme pattern of cdecde or cdcdcd.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Limerick <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">List <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. It can be any length and rhymed or unrhymed.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lyric <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Memoriam stanza <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba -- named after the pattern used by [|Lord Tennyson].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Name <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Poetry that tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Narrative <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A poem that tells a story.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Ode <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanza structure.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Pastoral <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, romanticized way.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Petrarchan <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A 14-line sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet of cddcee or cdecde

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Pindaric ode <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A ceremonious poem consisting of a strophe (two or more lines repeated as a unit) followed by a an antistrophe with the same metrical pattern and concluding with a summary line (an epode) in a different meter. Named after Pindar, a Greek professional lyrist of the 5th century B.C.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Quatrain <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while having a similar number of syllables.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Rhyme <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A rhyming poem has the repetition of the same or similar sounds of two or more words, often at the end of the line.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Rhyme royal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A type of poetry consisting of stanzas having seven lines in iambic pentameter.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Romanticism <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A poem about nature and love while having emphasis on the personal experience.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Rondeau <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A lyrical poem of French origin having 10 or 13 lines with two rhymes and with the opening phrase repeated twice as the refrain.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Senryu <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A short Japanese style poem, similar to haiku in structure that treats human beings rather than nature: Often in a humorous or satiric way.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sestina <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in varied order as end words in the other stanzas and also recur in the envoy.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Shakespearean <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A 14-line sonnet consisting of three quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a couplet, gg. Shakespearean sonnets generally use iambic pentameter.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Shape <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Poetry written in the shape or form of an object.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sonnet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines which usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tanka <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the other seven.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Terza Rima <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line tercets.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Verse <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A single metrical line of poetry.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Villanelle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

Link to another helpful poetry term page: [|http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/guweb2/enl102/poeterm.htm]

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 * Prose/Literary Terms:**
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|(the) Absurd]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Aesthetics]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Affective Fallacy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Allegory]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Alliteration]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Allusion]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Ambiguity]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Anachronism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Analogy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Antagonist]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Anticlimax]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Antithesis]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Aphorism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Apocalyptic]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Apology]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Arbitrary]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Archetype]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Ballad]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Bard]
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 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Black Comedy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Blank Verse]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Bombast]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Canon]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Canto]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Catharsis]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Character]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Characterization]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Chorus]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Chronicle]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Climax]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Closure]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Colloquialism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Comedy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Comic Relief]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Connotation]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Content]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Context]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Couplet]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Denouement]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Device]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Dialect]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Dialogue]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Digression]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Drama]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Elegy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Epic]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Epigram]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Epilogue]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Epithet]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Essay]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Euphemism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Exegesis]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Exposition]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Fable]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Fantasy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Farce]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Fiction]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Figure of Speech]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|First-Person Narrative]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Folklore]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Folk Tale]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Formula]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Free Verse]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Genre]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Hagiography]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Haiku]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Hero]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Homily]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Hubris]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Hyperbole]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Idiom]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Imagery]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|In medias res]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Interior Monologue]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Irony]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Lampoon]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Legend]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Limerick]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Litany]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Literal]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Literature]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Malapropism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Melodrama]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Metaphor]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Monologue]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Morality Play]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Muse]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Myth]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Narrative]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Nemesis]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Noh]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Nom de plume]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Novel]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Ode]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Onomatopoeia]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Oral Tradition]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Oratory]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Oxymoron]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Palindrome]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Parable]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Paradox]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Parallelism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Paraphrase]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Parody]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Pastoral]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Persona]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Personification]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Plagiarism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Plot]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Poetic Justice]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Poetic License]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Poetry]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Point of View]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Prologue]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Prose]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Realism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Protagonist]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Proverb]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Refrain]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Pun]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Pyrrhic]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Rhetoric]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Rhetorical question]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Rhyme]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Riddle]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Saga]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Satire]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Scenario]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Scene]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Science Fiction]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Semantics]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Short story]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Simile]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Soliloquy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Sonnet]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Spoonerism]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Stanza]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Story]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Style]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Subplot]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Synopsis]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Synesthesia: A description of something that combines two or more senses.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Theme]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Thesis]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Tragedy]
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Verse]