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a rhythmic foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, e.g. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold (Byron).
a fourteen line poem, with a set rhyme scheme. See Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet...
the place and time where a story occurs, e.g. South Africa in the 1970s apartheid era, Europe...
a figure of speech involving the accidental use of a wrong word which sounds rather like the...
rhyming words at the end of the lines in a poem. Some common patterns for end rhyme are
...a sentence with at least a subject and a predicate (or verb): Birds fly or with a subject, verb...