A-Z: General definitions
- T.S. Eliot
- Tabernacle
- Tablets of the Law
- Taboo
- Tale
- Talisman
- Talmud
- Tantalus
- Tarquinius Superbus
- Tartarus
- Tautology
- Tax-collector
- Te Deum
- Teachers of the law
- Technical lexis
- Teiresias
- Telemachus
- Temperament
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- Templar
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- Temple of Vesta
- Tempo Rubato
- Temporal
- Tempt
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- Tempter
- Ten Commandments
- Tense
- Tent of Meeting
- Tercet
- Terence
- Tertullian
- Terza Rima
A-Z: General definitions: Tercet
Definition
A 3-line unit of verse, usually forming part of a sestet. Sometimes it rhymes within itself, sometimes it has the same rhyme scheme as a following tercet.
The 6-line stanza of a Petrarchan sonnet, occupying the last six lines, sometimes divided into tercets or couplets. It often resolves the problem posed in the octave or comments significantly on it.
The device, frequently used at the ends of lines in poetry, where words with the same sound are paired, sometimes for contrast ' for example, 'breath' and 'death'.
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