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| usually written in three lines to equate to the three metrical phrases of this in Japanese that consist of five, seven, and five on |
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| metaphors have a much more purely conceptual, and thus tenuous, relationship between the things being compared |
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| the basic rhythmic structure of a verse |
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| a form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse structured in three parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode |
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| a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme |
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| the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech; may reflect the emotional state of a speaker; whether an utterance is a statement, a question, or a command; whether the speaker is being ironic or sarcastic; emphasis, contrast and focus; and other elements of language which may not be encoded by grammar. |
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| poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry. The rhyming patterns include aabb, abab, abba, abcb |
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| a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure |
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| describing various styles of poetry that are written without using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole |
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| has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close; lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain |
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| the second division of a sonnet, which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines;six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem |
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| either poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music |
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| study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages; used to refer directly to the rules and principles that govern the sentence structure of any individual language |
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| refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression |
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| a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses |
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| the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted; a stylistic scheme used to slow the rhythm of prose and can add an air of solemnity to a passage |
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