| blank verse | unrhymed verse, especially that having iambic pentameters, that is, lines consisting of ten syllables each with accents on every second syllable
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| camera lucida | (Latin, "light room") a device using a prism to project onto paper an image that the artist can copy or trace
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| chorale | a congregational hymn first sung in the Lutheran church
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| couplet | two successive lines of verse with similar end-rhymes
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| engraving | the process by which lines are incised on a metal plate, then inked and printed
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| essay | a short piece of expository prose that examines a single subject
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| genre painting | art depicting scenes from everyday life
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| indulgence | a Church pardon from the temporal penalties for sins; the remission of purgatorial punishment
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| kabuki | (Japanese, "song-dance-art") the most popular form of drama in Japan
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| novel | an extended fictional prose narrative
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| quatrain | a four-line stanza
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| triptych | a picture or altarpiece with a central panel and two flanking panels
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| woodcut | a relief printing process by which all parts of a design are cut away except those that will be inked and printed
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