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litotes
a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis and intensity
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loose sentence
a sentence that follows the customary word order of English sentences (subject verb object)
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lyric
subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter that reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression
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maxim
a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth
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melodrama
a literary account in which the incidents are sensational, the characters exceptionally noble or evil, the appeal to the emotions extreme
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metaphor
a figure of speech that compares unlike objects
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metaphysical poetry
the work of poets that implies elaborate conceits and is highly intellectual and expresses life's complexities
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meter
poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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metonymy
a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated
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Middle English
the language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 AD
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mode
an attribute or quality of a thing
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montage
a quick succession of images or pictures to express an idea
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mood
the emotional response that a piece of literature stimulates in the reader
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moral
the lesson a reader infers from a story, poem, or other piece of literature
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motif
a device that serves as a unifying agent in conveying a theme
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Muses
the goddesses presiding over the arts
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