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| Direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression |
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| A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea |
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| An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally |
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| The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter |
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| The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or anstract notions |
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| The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
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| The comparison of two words use like or as |
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| Rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry |
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| unrhymed verse having a regular meter, usually iambic pentameter |
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| An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem |
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| The comparison of two things without using like or as |
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| A representation of something else |
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| A disclosure or statement that is less than complete |
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| A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes |
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| A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned |
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| The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning |
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| Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical |
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| A pair of sccessive liens of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length |
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| Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source |
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| Poetry that tells a story |
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