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6753115941caesuraa pause in the middle of a line0
6753132004colloquialused in ordinary conversations1
6753151717enjambmentThe running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next2
6753160943farcea comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations3
6753171187iambicmetrical "feet" with two syllables.4
6753187822footusually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable5
6753196443feettwo unstressed syllables6
6753204258in-medias-resLatin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle7
6753236428juxtapositionan act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.8
6753246038refraina repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song9
6753256367synecdochefigure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa10
6753270923terza rimaan arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme11
6753280278Villanellea nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout12

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