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Instructor
Handout #

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: Spring
: Mahmoud Omar
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Literature
Adage
Allegory
Alliteration = head rhyme = initial rhyme
Annotation = notes
Anonymous
Anthology
Anti-climax
Avant-grade
Bibliography
Bibliophile
Collection of poems
Confidant (e)
Credulousness
Coup de theatre
Courtly love = platonic love
Dark comedy
Diary
Digression
Dime novel
Dramaturgy
Denouement
Epilogue
Euphemism
Existentialism
Expressionism
Fable
Fallacy = fallacious evidence
Farce
Fatalism
Fiction
Figurative language
Folklore
High comedy
Humanities
Imagism
Impressionism
Instinct
Interlude
Interpretation
Invocation
Irony
Sarcasm
Jongleur

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Light comedy
Literary remains
Literary supplement
Lyrical
Macaroni verse
Chef doeuvre
Metaphor
Moral
Morale
Myth
Novelette
Onomatopaeia
Oration
Oxymoron = a cheerful pessimist
Palindrome (greek) : Able was I ere I saw
Elba / level
Paradox
Pedantry
Plagiarism
Playwright = dramatist
Poetic license
Poet lawreate
Prolific
Preface
Prologue
Pseudonym
Pun
Rationalism
Refrain
Rhyme
Rhyme prose
Satire
Soliloquy
Subjectivism
Surrealism
Symbolism
Tragicomedy
Villain
Wit
Witty (adj.)