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the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
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a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.
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an electrostatic printing process for copying text or graphics whereby areas on a sheet of paper corresponding to the image areas of the original are sensitized with a charge of static electricity so that, when powdered with a toner carrying an opposite c
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the English -ing form of a verb when functioning as a noun, as writing in Writing is easy.
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the study of historical linguistic change, especially as manifested in individual words.
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repetition of initial consonant sounds.
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repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.
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a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
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device techniques emphasizing sound.
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a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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a literary or rhetorical device that appeals to or invokes the reader’s or listener’s emotions through the repetition of words or phrases in quick succession, as in “Threaten me all you want, I won’t do it. I won’t! I won’t! I won’t!”
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the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
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a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “cou
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(originally) a poem intended to be sung.
