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satire a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform
scansion the process of measuring verse, of marking accented and unaccented syllables
sentimental poetry poetry aimed primarily at stimulating the emotions rather than at communication experience honestly and freshly
sestet a six line stanza. the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model
simile a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
sonnet a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rime scheme conforming to or approximation one of two main types, Italian or English
spondee a metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally accented
stanza a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem
structure the internal organization of a poem's content
symbol a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is
synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is used for thw whole
tetrameter a metrical line containing four feet
theme the central idea of a literary work
tone a writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself
total meaning the total experience communicated by a poem
trimeter a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables; anapestic and dactylic meter
triple meter a metrical line containing three feet
triple rime a rime in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the third last syllable of the words involved
trochee a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
trochaic meter a meter in which the majority of feet are trochees
verse metrical language; the opposite of prose
understatement a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants

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