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| dictionary meaning or meanings of the word. |
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| what a word suggests beyond what it expresses: its overtones of meaning. |
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| the representation through language of sense experience. |
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| used as a means of comparing things that are unalike. Similes express comparisons by the use of some word or phrase, such as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems. |
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| used as a means of comparing things that are unalike. Comparisons are not expressed in metaphors; they are created when a figurative term is substituted for or identified with the literal term. |
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| consists of giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, object, or a concept. |
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| consists of addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if the person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said. |
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| the use of the part for the whole. |
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| the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. |
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| may be roughly defined as something that means more than what it is. |
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| a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface. |
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| an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. Is a statement. |
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| Overstatement (hyperbole) |
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| simply exaggeration, but exaggeration in the service of truth. |
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| saying less than one means; may exist in what one says or merely in how one says it. |
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| has meanings that extend beyond its use merely as a figure of speech. It is a literary device or figure that may be used in the service of sarcasm or ridicule or may not. |
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| a reference to something in history or previous literature. A means of suggesting far more than what it says. |
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Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden |
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"In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may" |
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Meeting at Night
Robert Browning |
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"And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!" |
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The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens |
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"One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;" |
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The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens |
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"And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." |
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