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| a syllable given more prominence than its neighbors |
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| a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one |
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| the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important works. Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels may also be said to alliterate with each other inasmuch as they all have the same lack of an initial consonant sound. |
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| a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history. |
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| a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests |
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| a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. |
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| a term used for words in a riming patterns that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes. Approximate rimes occur occasionally in patterns where most of the rimes are perfect. |
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| the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
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| a fairly shirt narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
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| unrimed iambic pantameter |
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| a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| what a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtone of meaning. |
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| the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| that form of poetry in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning |
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| two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rime |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls |
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| the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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| poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach |
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| a metrical line containing two feet |
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| the basic foot of dipodic verse, consisting of an unaccented syllable, a lightly accented syllable, an unaccented syllable, and a heavily accented syllable in that succession. However, dipodic verse accommodates a tremendous amount of variety, as shown by the examples in the text. |
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