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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A long narrative poem about the deeds of warriros or heroes, incorporating myth, legend, folk tale and history	Epic	100%
The concluding section or paragraph of any literary work, sometimes added as a summary, but more often as an afterthought	Epilogue	83%
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	Elegy	50%
The repetition of the same sound, or combinations of sounds fairly close together. Assonance, aliteration, consonance and the various kinds of rhyme and also the refrain are varieties of this.	Echo	33%
The omission or slurring of a syllable, e.g 'Th'infernal doors, and on their hinges grate'	Elision	33%
The rhyme which rounds off a line of verse	End-rhyme	33%
A short, witty statement in verse or prose which may be complimentary, satiric or aphoristic. Coleridge described it as 'A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul'	Epigram	33%
As a reaction to the restrictive rules surrounding verse, the running on of the sense beyond the second line of one couplet into the first line of the next, e.g 'Who, of men, can tell // That flowers would bloom or that green fruit would swell'	Enjambment	17%
An extended simile in some cases running to fifteen or twenty lines, in which the comparisons made are elaborated in considerable detail	Epic Simile	17%
Purposefully leaving out certain essential grammatical elements	Eclipsis	0%
An exclamation of joy, woe, amazement	Ecphonema	0%
A term which describes the way in which historians fashion their source material into narrative	Emplotment	0%
A figure of speech which contains a repetition of a word or words after other words have come between them, e.g 'Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view // Nor the deep tract od Hell, say first what cause // Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state'	Epanalepsis	0%
A poem addressed to a friend or patron, thus a kind of 'letter' in verse	Epistle	0%
A figure of speech in which each sentence or clause ends with the same word	Epistrophe	0%
The word used to describe the part of a play or story when the plot thickens. It precedes the castatrophe.	Epitasis	0%

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