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accented syllable action Allegory ballad bathos biography blank verse burlesque caesura called Chaucer chiefly chorus Chronicle plays comedy comic conflict conte dévot conventions criticism death device dramatists Dryden eighteenth century elegy elements Elizabethan Age emotional end-stopped England English poetry epic Epithalamion example exemplum expression fabliau feelings feminine rhyme genre Greek Hamlet Henry hero heroic couplet heroic drama human humor iambic pentameter idea Iliad irony kind King literary literature lyric man's masque meaning Metaphysical Poets Meter metrical Milton moral motif narrative nature neoclassical neoclassical school novel Odyssey Othello parable Paradise Lost parody pastoral Pathos period Petrarchan conceit plot poem poet poetic diction prose reader realism represent run-on line satire says scene sense seventeenth Shakespeare Shelley short story song Sonnet Spenser sprung rhyme stanza stock characters tercet terza rima tradition tragedy tragic tragicomedy unaccented syllable unity usually verse form word Wordsworth writers wrote