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| In literature, art, or music, a recurring set of words, shapes, colors, or notes. |
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| In art, music, or literature, a satire that mimics the style of its object. |
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| A work of art that celebrates the cultivated enjoyment of the countryside. |
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| One of the two "voices" of verbs. A verb in the passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. |
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| A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous. |
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| Expressions that do not belong to standard written English. |
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| A kind of writing that presents the thoughts of a person or character as they occur. |
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| The form of an adjective indicating the greatest degree of the quality that the adjective describes. |
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| The main sentence in a paragraph, often the first sentence. It briefly conveys the essential idea of the paragraph. |
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| A form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than it is. |
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