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| unrhymed poetry: unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length, especially iambic pentameter; signals a dramatic shift; spoken by royal or noble characters |
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1. mockery by ludicrous imitation: the mocking of a serious matter or style by imitating it in an incongruous way
2. work using burlesque: a literary or dramatic work that uses burlesque
3. ludicrous imitation: an incongruous imitation of something
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comedy satirizing social life: a comedy that satirizes the manners and customs of a section of society, especially fashionable society
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| literature exaggerated comparison in literature: an imaginative poetic image, or writing that contains such an image, especially a comparison that is extreme or far-fetched |
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| large book or manuscript: a book or manuscript in the largest size usual for books, traditionally created by folding a single sheet of standard-sized printing paper once, giving two leaves or four pages |
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expressing personal feelings: relating to poetry that often has a musical quality and expresses personal emotions or thoughts a lyric poet
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| type of lyric poem: a lyric poem, usually expressing exalted emotion in a complex scheme of rhyme and meter |
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| description of rural life: a literary work or painting that portrays rural life in an idealized way |
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book size: a book with pages of a size traditionally created by folding a single sheet of standard-sized printing paper in half twice, giving four leaves or eight pages
2. page size: the page size of a quarto book
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| poem with refrain: a poem of 13 or 10 lines in 3 stanzas, with 2 rhymes and with the opening phrase repeated twice as an unrhymed refrain |
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fourteen-line rhyming poem with set structure: a short poem with 14 lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections.
There are many rhyming patterns for sonnets, and they are usually written in iambic pentameter.
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ingenious humor: the apt, clever, and often humorous association of words or ideas, or a capacity for it
2. speech or writing showing wit: speech or writing that shows an apt, clever, and often humorous association of words
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| figure of speech: a figure of speech in which an adjective or verb is used with two nouns but is appropriate to only one of them or has a different sense with each, as in "During the race he broke the record and his leg" |
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