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a short speech or remar spoken by a character in a drama, directed either to the audience or to another chracter, which by convention is supposed to be inaudible to the other characters on stage.
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elegy
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a mournful poem;a lament for the dead
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epic
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a long poem which relates the story of an event, or of a series of events, whether historical or imaginary, concerning heoric action by one or more individuals, usually over a relatively long period of time
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epilogue
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concluding part of a literary work
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epigram
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short clever wise saying
"to know all is to forvige all." |
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episode
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incident or event within the main plot of the story
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epitaph
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words intended to be inscribed on a tomb
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epithet
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a short, poetic, vivd nickname--often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase attched to the normal name(eg. wine-dark sea)
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euphony
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an inherent sweetness of sound(eg. chimes, hush, vermillion)
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farce
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comedy that inspires hilarity mixed with panic and cruelty in its audience through an increasingly rapid imporbable series of ludicrous confusion, physical disasters
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idiom
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a group of words whose meaning is specific to a certain group and cannot be directly translated eg. chew the fat or down in the dumps double double
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