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| a unit or group of four lines of verse |
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| a regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song : chorus; also : the musical setting of a refrain |
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| a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual |
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| a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
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| a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) — compare |
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| the act of talking to oneself |
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| onsisting of three quatrains and a couplet (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg) |
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| a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |
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| of, pertaining to, or characterized by a manner of writing in which a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, distinctions between various levels of reality |
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| a distinctive manner of expression (as in writing or speech) |
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| something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance |
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. |
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| the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses) |
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| a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art. |
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| accent or inflection expressive of a mood or emotion |
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| to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms |
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(in literature and art) a relation of all the parts or elements of a work constituting a harmonious whole and producing a single general effect. |
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| a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain |
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