| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aphorism | a concise expression of insight of wisdom |
| dirge | a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead. |
| parable | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson |
| transcendentalism | Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. |
| cacophony | The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect. |
| trope | any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. |
| anagnorisis | the critical moment of recognition or discovery, esp. preceding peripeteia. |
| bathos | An abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. |
| pathos | a quality that arouses emotions |
| lugubrious | Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| strident | making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking |
| equivocal | of uncertain significance; not determined |
| euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. |
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