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- Stanza
- A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme: STROPHE
- juxtaposition
- the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side; also : the state of being so placed
- foot
- in an extemporaneous manner. while in action
- free verse
- verse whose meter is irregular in some respect or whose rhythm is not metrical
- conceit
- a result of mental activity. thought. individual opinion. favorable opinion, especially excessive appreciation of one's own worth or virtue.
- heroic couplet
- heroic couplet
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language — compare simile2: an object, activity, or idea treated as a metaphor : SYMBOL
- Tetrameter
- A line of verse consisting either of four dipodies (as in classical iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse) or four metrical feet (as in modern English verse)
- sight rhyme
- EYE RHYME
- hexameter
- systematically arranged and measureed rhythm in verse. rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern. rhythm chararcterized by regular recurrance of a systematic arrangement of basic patterns in larger figures
- iambic
- a poem or a line of poetry written in iambs.
- trochaic
- of, relating to, or consisting of trochees
- terse rima
- relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels b: repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse
- anapestic
- a metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable or of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
- Paradox
- a tenet contrary to received opinion2 a: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true b: a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true c: an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises
- synecdoche
- a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)
- ballad
- a narrative compositioon in rhythmic verse suitable for singing. an art song accompanying a traditional ballad.
- Trimester
- A period of three or about three months; especially: any of three periods of approximately three months each into which a human pregnancy is divided
- understatement
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to represent as less than is the case
2 : to state or present with restraint especially for effect - couplet
- two succesive lines of verse forming a unit marked ususally by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the unclusion of selfcontained utterance
- Spenserian stanza
- a stanza consisting of eight verses of iambic pentameter and an alexandrine with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc
- quatrain
- a unit or group of four lines of verse
- rhyme
- rhyming verse. poetry. a compsition in verse that rhyme. a correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance.
- dactylic
- a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables.
- ryhme royal
- a stanza of seven lines in iamic pentameter with a ryhme scheme of ababbcc
- Metonymy
- A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown")
- apostrophe
- the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically.
- pastoral
- pleasingly peaceful and innocent. idyllic
- parody
- a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule 2 : a feeble or ridiculous imitation
- pentameter
- a line of verse consiting of five metrical feet
- blank verse
- unrhymed verse; specifically : unrhymed iambic pentameter verse
- incremental repetition
- repetition in each stanza (as of a ballad) of part of the preceding stanza usually with a slight change in wording for dramatic effect
- alexandrie
- a line of verse of 12 syllables consisting regularly of 6 iambs with a caesura after the third iamb
- elegy
- a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentatioon especially for one who is dead something resembling such a song or poem
- Sonnet
- A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme; also: a poem in this pattern