Literary Terms Beginning with the Letters B and C
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| ballad | A poem, often meant to be sung, that tells the story.
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| bathos | A sudden descent from the lofty to the ordinary or ridiculous.
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| belles-lettres | Literature. Currently, lighter writings or appreciative essays on the beauties of literature.
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| bibliography | A list of books on a similar subject or by a given author or authors.
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| biography | The story of someone’s life as written by another.
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| blank verse | Unrhymed poetry, especially poetry written in iambic pentameter.
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| cacophony | Discordant sounds, sometimes used in poetry for effect.
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| cadence | The natural rhythm of language determined by its inherent alternation of stressed or unstressed syllables.
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| caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse.
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| climax | The point of high emotional intensity at which a story or play reaches its peak.
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| conceit | A fanciful image, especially an elaborate or startling analogy.
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| couplet | Two successive lines of poetry, usually rhymed.
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