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| the dictionary meaning of a word |
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| what a word suggests beyond what it expresses: its overtones of meanings |
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| the representation through language of sense experience |
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| represens a touch such as hardness, softness, wetness, or heat and cold |
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| language using figures of speech |
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| comparing things that are essentially unlike |
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| comparing things that are essentially unlike |
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personification
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a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, object, or concept
referring to the dead |
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| a figure of speech in which something means |
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| a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements |
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| a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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| a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means or of saying with less force |
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| a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruency or dissipency |
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| a reference in literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or literature |
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| the repitition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of 2 or more words |
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| the use of words in which their pronunciation suggests their meaning |
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| repeated units having the same number of lines, usually the same metrical pattern, and often an identical rhythm scheme |
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| a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem |
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| 5-7-5 syllable pattern, Japanese nature poem |
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| a subliteray form, illustrates the fixed form in general, usually funny |
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| sonnet (English or Shakespearean) |
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| must be 14 lines in length, almost always iambic pentameter, and usually around 10 syllables per line |
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| no rhyme, no set pattern, normal poetry |
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