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| figurative or descriptive language in a literary work |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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| speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
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| the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure. |
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| poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. |
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| a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
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| identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. |
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| a particular style or manner, as of writing or speech; mood |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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