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| A contrast or opposition between two things. |
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| An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. |
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| when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |
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| The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive. |
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| A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
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| Use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. |
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play |
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| irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. |
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| foot: unstressed, unstressed, stressed |
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| Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter. |
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| foot: stressed, unstressed, unstressed. i.e. most prepositional phrases. |
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| a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate. |
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| A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. |
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| A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any of various set combinations. For example, an iambic foot has an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable |
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| foot: unstressed, stressed |
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| A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. |
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| rhyme with final stressed syllables |
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| The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line. |
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| A five-line (aabba) nonsense poem with an anapestic meter |
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| A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. |
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| A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet |
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| A rhyme involving three syllables. |
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| foot: stressed, unstressed |
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| An arrangement of triplets, esp. in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc. |
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