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| a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” |
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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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| a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern |
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| a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, |
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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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| an object, person, idea, etc, used in a literary work, film, etc, to stand for or suggest something else with which it is associated either explicitly or in some more subtle way |
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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 unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art. |
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| a descriptive heading or caption, as of a chapter, section, or other part of a book |
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| any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc |
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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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