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Understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the contrary.
"Not a problem" = "it's fine" |
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An alternate name for something.
i.e: The Whitehouse declared... |
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| Giving human qualities to nature |
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| A tone that is overly scholarly, academic. |
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| speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time |
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is the English verse form closest to the natural rhythms of English speech.
Most common pattern found in traditional English narrative and dramatic poetry from Shakespeare to the early twentieth century. |
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| Poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson. Michael Wigglesworth’s Puritan poem Day of Doom is an example |
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