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(also called an Elizabethan sonnet) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a final rhyming couplet (two-line stanza). The rhyme scheme is usually abab cdcd efef gg.
an essay in which something is described in detail, e.g. an event, place or person.
see concord.
a figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood; alternatively,...
a figure of speech in which the term for one thing is applied to another associated with it, e.g...
the process of asking questions of a text as you read it; reading deeply.