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1. Heroic Couplet: A rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often “ closed ” , containing a complete thought, there being a fairly heavy pause at the end of the first line and a still heavier one at the end of the second. Commonly there is a parallel or antithesis within a line, or between the two lines. 2. Dramatic monologue is a type of poem writing style in which a character, at some specific and critical moment, addresses an identifiable but silent audience, thereby unintentionally revealing his or her essential temperament and personality.（是一种诗的写作形式，是使一个角色在一些特殊的决定性时刻作为可辨认的但沉默的观众，由此无意的显示他或她的基本脾性。）3. Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century. 4. Iambic Pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, that is, with each foot an iamb. 5. Sonnet（十四行诗） : an exact form of poetry in 14 lines of iambic pentameter intricately rhymed, was introduced to England from Italy 。It ’s a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. There are two major patterns of rhyme in sonnets written in the English language: 1.the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet，falls into two main parts an octave (eight lines ) rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet( six lines ) rhyming cdecde or some variant ,such as cdccdc. 2. Shakespeare sonnet： :abab cdcd efef gg 6. A conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage o...