• fable: a short moral story
• an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

anachronism

anapest

• a three-syllable poetic measure comprising two short or unaccented syllables followed by a longer accented one (--/).

• The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

• a brief account of an interesting incident or event that usually is intended to entertain or to make a point.
  

• a short, pithy statement of a truth or doctrine
• A terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation

• The direct address of a person or personified thing, either present or absent
• a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object or idea

• A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain

• Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms

• harsh, discordant sound : dissonance

• a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

• Catharsis is a key element of tragedy which induces pity and fear in the audience: pity of the hero's plight, and fear that it will befall us
  

• Language that is familiar, informal everyday talk

cinquain

• In poetry, a cinquain or quintain is a five line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually with the rhyme scheme ababb

• A literary movement, popular in France and England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that reflected the following values of ancient Greece and Rome: an interest in balance and proportion in artistic form; an emphasis on reason and rationality rather than on emotion and irrationality

• A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

• An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor

• The attitudes and feelings associated with a word

• a direct specific meaning

• formal and orderly and usually extended expression of thought on a subject

• a mingling of discordant sounds

• a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead

• a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero

• a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying
• a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought

• pleasing or sweet sound

• an anecdote or short narrative used to point a moral or sustain an argument

• a setting forth of the meaning or purpose

• a light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirical comedy and improbable plot

foil

• someone or something that serves as a contrast to another

• seven metrical feet

• six metrical feet

• exaggerated pride or self-confidence

• a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

• a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment

• a sentence in which the principal clause comes first and subordinate modifiers or trailing elements follow

metonymy

• a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)

• an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals

• action, inclination, or thought based only on natural desires and instincts

• relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence
•  expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations

• a stanza of eight lines

•  a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle

• a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

parody

• a feeble or ridiculous imitation

rhetoric

• the art of speaking or writing effectively

• a stanza or a poem of six lines

• a unit or group of three lines of verse

•  a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by one short syllable or of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

• a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain