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| a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of qrotesque exxageration or comic imitation |
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| harsh or discordant sound |
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| a sanctioned or accepted group of related works; a body of principles, rules, standards, or norms |
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| one of the major divisions of a long poem |
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| exxageration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
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| use of the wrong word in the context "sight unseen" |
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| metrically incomplete line of verse |
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| purification, cleansing, or clarification |
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| a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in europe that favored rationality, restraint, and strict forms |
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| a trite or overused expression or idea |
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| a genre of dramatic commedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom has one overriding trait or 'humor' that dominates their persionality and conduct |
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| fanciful poetic image, especially an elaborate or exaggerated comparison |
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| poetry that visually conveys the poet's meaning through the graphic arrangement of letters, words, or symbols on the page |
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| gives intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life |
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| agreement; harmony; accord |
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| a metaphor that through overuse has not figurative value |
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| a philosophical movemet and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth |
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| showing or pointing out directly |
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