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Terza rima
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Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet
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femme fatale
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is a mysterious and seductive woman[1] whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.
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anaphora
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hat consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.
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apostrophe
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a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”
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anastrophe
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reversal of words
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motif
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a dominant idea
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metonymy
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form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche (and, in fact, some rhetoricians do not distinguish between the two), in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared.
The orders came directly from the White House. |
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synecdoche
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type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion, section, or main quality for the whole or the thing itself (or vice versa).
Farmer Jones has two hundred head of cattle and three hired hands |
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ethos
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credibility
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pathos
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emotion
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