| Term | Definition |
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| Dramatic Monologue | A form of dramatic poetry in which the speaker describes a crucial moment in his or her life to a silent listener-and in the process reveals much about his or her own character |
| Elegy | A serious poem of lament, usually mourning a death or other great loss |
| Empathy | An individual's close identification with a person, place or thing, as when audience members experience the same emotions as a character in a play |
| Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to another |
| Epic | A long narrative poem that recounts, in formal language, the exploits of a larger-than-life hero |
| Epigram | A short, witty poem; a saying |
| Epilogue | A concluding statement or section added to a work of literature |
| Epiphany | A moment of sudden realization of the true meaning of a situation, person, or object |
| Epitaph | A tombstone inscription or brief poem composed in memory of someone who has died |
| Epithet | A brief phrase that is used to characterize a person, place or thing |
| Essay | A short piece of nonfiction writing in which the author presents his or her view on a particular topic |
| Exemplum | A brief story used as an example to illustrate a moral point |
| Extended metaphor | a metaphor that compares two unlike things in various ways throughout a paragraph, stanza, or selection |
| Fable | A very brief, often humorous, story intended to teach a lesson about human behavior or to give advice on how to behave |
| Farce | A type of comedy with ridiculous situations, characters, and events |
| Fiction | A narrative in which situations and characters are invented by the writer |
| Figurative Language | Language that is not meant to be interpreted literally and is used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly |
| Figure of speech | A specific device or kind of figurative language |
| Flashback | A narrative passage set in an earlier time that interrupts the chronological order of the rest of a story |
| Epigraph | A quotation from another work that suggests a theme, or main idea, of the work at hand |
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