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6753115941 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a line | 0 | |
6753132004 | colloquial | used in ordinary conversations | 1 | |
6753151717 | enjambment | The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next | 2 | |
6753160943 | farce | a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | 3 | |
6753171187 | iambic | metrical "feet" with two syllables. | 4 | |
6753187822 | foot | usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable | 5 | |
6753196443 | feet | two unstressed syllables | 6 | |
6753204258 | in-medias-res | Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle | 7 | |
6753236428 | juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. | 8 | |
6753246038 | refrain | a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song | 9 | |
6753256367 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa | 10 | |
6753270923 | terza rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme | 11 | |
6753280278 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout | 12 |