cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every. Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme The dictionary definition of a word a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Parallel Structure Epistrophe Synecdoche Anticlimax

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the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

a five line stanza A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. three line stanza a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")