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A tragedy is a dramatic work that treats serious subjects and ends unhappily, usually with the death of the protagonist.
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A sonnet is a specific poetic form consisting of fourteen lines.
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'The Gift of the Magi' is a famous short story by O. Henry about a couple buying secret Christmas gifts.
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An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
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An ode is a lyric poem addressed to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner.
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Charles Dickens wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'.
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A stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line.
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An epic is a long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds.
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This line is from P.B. Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind', where the poet asks the wind to lift him.
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While the fable is Aesop's, W. Somerset Maugham wrote a famous short story titled 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'.