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| a burial inscription, often serious but sometimes humorous |
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| a word or phrase expressing a characteristic of someone/something |
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| a prose compostion; originally meant a "try" or "attempt" to discuss a topic or idea |
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| a mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered offensively direct |
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| a pleasant combination of sounds |
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| a parable or moralizing tale, especially in a medieval sermon |
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| a close reading of a literary text; to unfold and reveal all meanings |
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| the beginning or rising action in plot; the presentation of essential information especially about what happened before this plot began |
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| a brief moral tale, in verse or prose, non-historical, where animals speak and behave as do humans |
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| an earthy, humorous, medieval tale in verse or prose, satirizing social classes and human behavior |
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| after the climax or crisis in a plot, the reversal of fortunes that leads to the denouement or resolution of problems |
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| broadly humorous situation with clever words or slapstick |
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| anything made up, imagined, especially a prose narrative |
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| language saying one thing in terms of something else (metaphors, similes, personification, etc. are examples of this) |
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| an interruption in chronological narration to present an earlier episode |
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| a contrast to a protagonist; a character who sets off another |
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| large sheet of paper folded once to form two leaves, four pages; a book consisting of sheets folded once, providing four pages each |
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| songs, tales, sayings, customs, rites, jokes, etc. passed down from generation to generation, usually orally |
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| the basic unit of rhythm in poetry having stressed or unstressed syllables |
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| hints or clues of what's to come |
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| rhythmical lines varying in length, adhering to no fixed pattern, and unrhymed |
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| a literary species or form, such as drama, poetry, novel, essay, etc. |
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| a short or long explanation of a work |
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| the tragic flaw or error or shortcoming or weakness in the hero of a tragedy |
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| a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter, usually closed, and expressing a complete thought |
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| overweening pride or arrogance; excessive confidence |
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| a system of thought valuing humans and their standards/ethics/reason, not according to any formal religious belief or system |
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| intentional exaggeration for/to produce an effect; overstatement |
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| one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (u/) -- adjective form = iambic |
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| a short, picturesque piece, usually a poem, about a pleasant or ideal little episode |
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