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something that denotes a mark or symbol
wind, poodle |
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| address to an absent or imaginary person |
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extravagant exaggeration
Humungous tree
Super fast car |
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| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
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representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Dancing flowers
Swaying winds |
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| using words that imitate the sound they denote |
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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
Like a boss
People are like apples |
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the rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry
Would you like it in a house
Would you like it with a mouse |
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| a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme |
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| a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
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a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Life is a box of chocolates |
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something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
light=life
darkness=death |
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| a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said |
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| a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
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| someone who expresses in language; someone who talks |
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| a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, myth |
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| a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language |
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| substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme |
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| a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed |
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| a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages |
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| poetry that tells a story |
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