-Bathos: An anticlimax or sudden descent from a lofty to prosaic level of language or subject matter.
-Ballad: A narrative poem set to music, often with a tragic or romantic subject matter.
-Beat: Regular recurrence or rhythm in verse, especially a stress or accent.
-Bildungsroman: A novel depicting the moral, psychological, and intellectual growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood.
-Black humor: A type of humor that jokes about serious or grim topics, such as death, war, or illness.
-Blank verse: Poetry that lacks a regular rhyme scheme but does have a meter consisting of iambic pentameter.
-Bombast: Language or speech that is overly inflated, pompous, or bombastic in style and content.
-Brachyology: A concise or shortened expression or phrase that retains the full intended meaning.
-Burlesque: A literary, dramatic, or musical work that mocks or parodies a serious subject or genre.