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a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. |
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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
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a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter |
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Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody . rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence. |
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any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody |
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