t expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died. This type of work stemmed out of a Greek work known as a elegus , a song of mourning or lamentation that is accompanied by the flute. - a long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation. 38. Epigram - a brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point. Epigrams are most often written in couplets, but take no prescribed form. - The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one (eg: the use of pass away instead of die ). The basic psychology of euphemistic language is the desire to put something bad or embarrassing in a positive (or at least neutral light). Thus many terms referring to death, sex, crime, and excremental functions are euphemisms. Since the euphemism is often chosen to disguise something horrifying, it can be exploited by the satirist through the use of irony and exaggeration. - A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, which provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. Exposition explains what has gone on before, the relationships between characters, the development of a theme, and the introduction of a conflict. - A story that teaches a lesson, with people who have never actually existed or animals who behave like human beings.novel - any novel that is disengaged from reality. Often such novels are set in nonexistent worlds, such as under the earth, in a fairyland, on the moon, etc. The characters are often something other than human or include nonhuman characters. - The word fiction comes orignally from Latin fingere, to fashion or to form. Fiction is usually narrative, although it can be either verse or prose.language - a type of language that varies from the norms of literal language, in which words mean exactly what they say. Also known as the ornaments of language , figurative language does not mean exactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to make an imaginative leap in order to comprehend an author s point. It usually involves a comparison between two things that may not, at first, seem to relate to one another (eg: in a simile an author may compare a person to an animal: He ran like a hare down the street is the figurative way to describe the man running and He ran very quickly down the street is the literal way to describe him). Figurative language facilitates understanding because it relates something unfamiliar to something familiar. - Device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction. Flashback techniques include memories, dreams, stories of the past told by characters, or even authorial sovereignty. - Is the basis of meter; the regular unit of rthythm which, when repeated, makes up a verse. Although the basis of meter in the classical languages ​​was quantitative - ie, long and short syllables were based on the actual amount of time it took to speak the syllables - and some English poets made experiments in this direction, virtually all English feet are based on a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Still, the terms are usually imported from Greek and Latin versification, and you may hear long and short where stressed and < span align = "justify"> unstressed are meant. Each common foot comprises two or three syllables: either one or two stressed syllables, and zero, one, or two unstressed syllables. - A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel. Often, a narrator will describe where he found the manuscript of the novel or where he heard someone tell the story he is about to relate. The frame helps control the reader s perception of the work, and has been used in the past to help give credibility to the main section of the novel.verse - a verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter. Free verse often uses cadences rather than uniform metrical feet. - A t...
