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| quatrain | a four line verse |
| realism | a faithful representation of reality; verisimilitude |
| repetition | a device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and create emphasis |
| rhetoric | the skill of using spoken or written communication effectively. It is used to draw attention to a point and is generally stronger than a direct statement |
| rhetorical question | a question that expects no answer. It is used to draw attention to a point and is generally stronger than a direct statement |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming words in a stanza |
| ryhme | similarity or likeness of sound |
| rhythm | the metrical or rhythmical pattern in a poem |
| rising action | the development of conflict leading to a crisis |
| romance | works having extravagant characters, remote or exotic settings, adventure, magic, chivalry, and love |
| round character | a fully developed character |
| sarcasm | the caustic and heavy use of apparent praise |
| satire | writing that ridicules and holds up for contempt the faults of individuals or groups to bring about reform |
| scansion | a system for describing more of less conventional poetic rhythms by dividing the lines into feet |
| semantics | the nature, structure, development and changes of the meaning of speech forms or with contextual meaning |
| sentence structure | how a speaker or author constructs a sentence affects what the audience understands. |
| sestet | a six line stanza |
| setting | the time and place action happens |
| shift | a change of feelings by the speaker from the beginning to the end, paying particular attention to the conclusion of the literature |
| simile | a direct or explicit comparison of two unlike and unrelated objects, indicating a likeness between quality or situation. |
