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A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. |
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refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar". |
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portmanteau word is a blend of two (or more) words or morphemes into one new word. |
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A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. |
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Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry |
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addition to referring to the discipline, the term syntax is also used to refer directly to the rules and principles that govern the sentence structure of any individual language, |
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is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. |
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