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- Carpe diem
- seize the day
- catharsis
- emotional cleansing causing relief
- chiasmus
- inverting the second of two phrases that would be in parallel form.
- colloquial
- used in every day dialect
- comic relief
- humor that provides a relief
- conceit
- far fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things
- connotation
- association word calls to mind
- consonance
- somae cosonoant sounds but different vowel sounds
- conventional chracter
- character with tradtional traits
- couplet
- two successive rhyming lines
- dactyl
- foot of poetry with syllables of one stressed two undtressed
- Denotation
- dictionary or literary meaning of a word or phrase
- denouement
- outcome or clarification winding down from climx
- deus ex machina
- when gods intervine at story end
- diction
- word choice or language
- didactic
- teaches a moral
- distortion
- stretching of truth to get desired effect.
- Epigram
- short clever poem with witty thought
- enhjambment
- used in poetry running of sentnce
- epigraph
- bried quotation that reflects to theme
- epistolary novel
- novel written in letter form
- euphony
- quality of a pleasant or harmonius sound
- farce
- kind of comedy
- figurative language
- refers to ones senses
- first person
- character in story tells the story