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| A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication. |
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| The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group. |
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| A foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter. |
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| Rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words. |
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| Any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. |
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| Unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. |
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| The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. |
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| Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. |
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| A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
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| A foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter. |
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| The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it. |
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| Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words. |
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| A mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style. |
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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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| To move the feet rhythmically, as to music or in dance. |
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| Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
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| A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. |
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| Obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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| Denoting a type of satirical verse written in iambs. |
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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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| A mental representation; idea; conception. |
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| The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. |
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| The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
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| A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
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| A short poem of songlike quality. |
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| A metaphor that is stated directly. |
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| A metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas. |
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| A metaphor that is not stated. |
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| The rhythmic arrangement of syllables in verse, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line. |
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| A poem that tells a story and has a plot. |
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| A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse. |
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| A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. |
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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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| The narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. |
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| The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. |
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| A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
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| To abstain from an impulse to say or do something. |
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| A rhyme that is close to a form of rhyme. |
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| A rhyme that follows an exact pattern. |
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| Rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry. |
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| A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse. |
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| Slant Or Imperfect Rhyme(n.) |
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| Rhymes that are not perfect. |
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| The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal. |
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| Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like. |
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| A line that keeps going and going. |
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| The last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit. |
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| A poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. |
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| A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. |
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| A poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. |
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| Shakespearean or English sonnet(n.) |
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| A sonnet that was very dramatic. |
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| Petrarchan or Italian sonnet(n.) |
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| Sonnets that were about love. |
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| A foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. |
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| An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. |
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| A particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character. |
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| Something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. |
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| A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines. |
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| A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic. |
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| The distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like. |
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| Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc. |
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| A foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. |
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