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| to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds, |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose |
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| narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |
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| A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, "book-plaque-thicker") |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, "book-plaque-thicker") |
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| pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem |
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| A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry. |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word |
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| The selection of words in a literary work |
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| Poetry that that has punctuation at its end |
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| A lyric poem that laments the dead. |
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| long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero |
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| A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme |
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| A three-line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables (in American practice this requirement is frequently dispensed with |
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| A three-line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables (in American practice this requirement is frequently dispensed with |
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| An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. See Foot |
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