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| a story using figurative characters and language |
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| referring to the elaborate artistic style in the 17th century |
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| a comedic form that makes people, actions, or literary works seem rediculous through imitation, mockery, or caricature |
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| referring to ancient Greek and Roman culture, art, music, literature, and architecture |
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| a work designed to amuse and to end well for the main characters |
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| the unraveling of the plot of the story, the outcome of an event or chain of events |
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| comedy featuring rowdy and violent actions, slapstick and illogical |
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| verse more rhythmic than prose yet written without metric pattern, usually lacking rhyme |
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| kind, sort, or category of art, music, or literature |
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| a medieval architectural style, in literature, desolate or macabre plots and settings |
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| a verbal picture ridiculing an individual, may be lighter than satire |
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| a form of high burlesque that ridicules a particular work by copying the major features and applying them to trivial matters |
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| the leading part or main character, the good guy |
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| extremely ornate or intricate architectural style or music |
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| comedy, using laughter as a weapon, to evoke contempt and scorn, humor which exposes human failings |
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| humor that mocks its subject by treating it in lowly terms |
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