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| 10246958 | Balanced Sentence | The phrases or clauses balanced each other by virtue of their likeliness of structure, meaning or length | |
| 10246959 | Bathos | An abrupt change from the lofty to the ordinary or trivial in writing or speech; anticlimax | |
| 10246960 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. Blank verse has been called the most "natural" verse form for dramatic works, since it supposedly is the verse form most close to natural rhythms of English speech, and it has been the primary verse form of English drama and narrative poetry since the mid-sixteenth Century | |
| 10246961 | Cacophony | Harsh sounding, jarring sound, dissonance | |
| 10246962 | Caesura | A pause or break in a line of poetry | |
| 10246963 | Chiasmus | Like an antimetabole, but reversing the grammar instead | |
| 10246964 | Clause | In grammatical terminology, a clause is any word-construction containing a nominative and a predicate, i.e., a subject "doing" a verb. The term clause contrasts with the term phrase. A phrase might contain nouns as appositives or objects, and it might contain verb-like words in the form of participles or gerunds, but it crucially lacks a subject "doing" a verb. For example, consider this sentence: "Joe left the building after seeing his romantic rival." | |
| 10246965 | Cliche | Overuse phrase | |
| 10246966 | Climax | Arranging words, clauses, or sentences in the order of their importance, the least forcible coming first and the others rising to power until the last | |
| 10246967 | Colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | |
| 10246968 | Complex Sentence | Sentence with one or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses | |
| 10246969 | Compound Sentence | Two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction by a FANBOY or semicolon | |
| 10246970 | Compound-complex sentence | Contains two or more principals clauses and one more subordinate clauses | |
| 10246971 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or a surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | |
| 10246972 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of words; the implied, suggested meaning. | |
| 10246973 | Consonance | A repetition of consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect | |
| 10246974 | Cumulative sentence | beings with the main idea and adds additional information, usually for description | |
| 10246975 | Dactylic | A foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable | |
| 10246976 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement | |
| 10246977 | Denotation | Strict, literal, dictionary definition | |
| 10246978 | Device | A plan. Something used to gain an artistic effect | |
| 10246979 | Diction | Related to style, refers to the authors choice of words, especially with regard to clearness, correctivess and effectiveness. | |
| 10246980 | Didactic | From Greek, means teaching. These works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | |
| 10246981 | Dimeter | A verse written in two foot lines | |
| 10246982 | Dirge | A funeral hymn; a slow sad song, poem, or musical composition expression grief or mourning. |
