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| Emphatic overstatement of a point of description |
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| Asserting one thing by denying its contrary |
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| Direct comparison between two unlike things |
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| Use of one noun for one closely associated with it |
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| Use of words whose sounds suggest the sense of the line |
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| Human qualities attributed to animals, objects, or ideas |
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| Use of unnecessary conjunctions |
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| Use of a word, usually a modifier, before it is logically appropriate |
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Comparison using like or as
-Epic Similes are long and tend to relate to nature, often digressing from points of comparison |
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| Arrangement of pairs of words between each other ABAB |
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| Use of the part for the whole or vice-versa |
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| Separation of the parts of a compound word by one of more intervening words |
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| Attributing some character of a thing to another closely associated thing for emphasis |
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| Junction of two words with a modifying or governing word which strictly applies to only one of them |
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| A character, object, or event representing an idea or moral or religious truth |
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| Repetition of the same sound, usually initial, in two successive or near words |
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| Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or clauses |
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| Break in grammatical construction for rhetorical effect |
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| Addressing an absent person or an abstraction usually for pathetic effect |
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| Similarity of vowels but not consonants |
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| Omission of a conjunction in closely related series |
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| Arrangement of words in ABBA |
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| Digression describing a place, usually connected by hic or huc, used for a transition to a new scene |
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| Omission of words necessary to the sense of the sentence |
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| Enclosure of a line of verse by placing connected words, often a noun and an adjective at the beginning and end |
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| Two nouns and a conjunction rather than a modified noun |
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