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| The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, boom, click, plop). |
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| What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning. Example: "celebrate" the dead |
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| The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems. Example: Sleeping like a log. |
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| A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. Example: A sea of troubles. |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, map-moon, kill-code, preach-approve). |
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| A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds. Example: crag, crooked |
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| A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements. Example: Dark knows daylight. |
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| A compact verbal paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict one another. Example: living dead |
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| A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept. Example: The eagle attacks the mouse with crooked hands. |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. Example: I could sleep for a year. |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, vein-made). |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. |
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| A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem. |
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| A reference, explicit, or implicit, to something in previous literature or history. |
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| The representation through language of sense experience. |
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| A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. |
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| indulge in emotion for the sake of emotion |
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| language not appropriate to the situation |
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| poetry meant to teach or preach |
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| Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound. |
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| In this book, the same as stress. A syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented. |
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| In this book, the same as accent. |
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| A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, rehearse). |
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| The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one of two unaccented syllables (the spondaic foot is a modification of this principle). |
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| A metrical line containing five feet. |
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| A metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (for example, true-blue). |
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| The process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern. |
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