5715785532 | Rhyme scheme | Fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or stanza | 0 | |
5715785533 | Rising action | Development of plot in the story or play that leads up to climax | 1 | |
5715785534 | Run-on line | Line w/ no natural speech pause at end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line (just continues) | 2 | |
5715785535 | Sarcasm | Bitter or cutting speech | 3 | |
5715785536 | Satire | Literature that ridicules human folly or vice w/ the purpose of bringing about reform | 4 | |
5715785537 | Scansion | (Process of measuring metrical verse) marking accented and Unaccented syllables, dividing lines into feet, identifying metrical pattern and noting variations | 5 | |
5715785538 | Sentimentality | Contriving tender feelings; that seeks to get years through oversimplification of falsifying reality | 6 | |
5715785539 | Sentimental poetry | Poetry that tried to manipulate the readers emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response | 7 | |
5715785540 | Sestet | 1) Six-line stanza 2) last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 8 | |
5715785541 | Simile | Figure if speech , comparison made between two things essentially unlike "Like " " as " | 9 |
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