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simile |
a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. |
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metaphor |
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, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. |
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personification |
the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure."the rock walked away" |
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idiom |
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics. |
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hyperbole |
an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”. |
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alliteration |
the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. |
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onomatopeia |
the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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internal rhyme |
a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse. |
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rhyme scheme |
the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc. |
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meter |
the alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables; beat. |
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capital letters |
a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r : used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc. |
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line length |
There are two parts to the term iambic pentameter. The first part refers to the type ofpoetic foot being used predominantly in the line. A poetic foot is a basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables. In the case of an iambic foot, the sequence is "unaccented, accented". |
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word position |
a place where someone or something is located or has been put. "the distress call had given the ship's position" |
