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a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: thegenre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
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Fine Arts.
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paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter.
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a realistic style of painting using such subject matter.
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genus; kind; sort; style.
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of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type.
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noun, plural he·roes; for 5 also he·ros.
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a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
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a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and isregarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
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the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.
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Classical Mythology .
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a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity.
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(in the Homeric period) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability.
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(in later antiquity) an immortal being; demigod.
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of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historicalresearch.
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based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of thebattle of Gettysburg.
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having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or asdistinguished from religious belief: to doubt that a historical Camelot ever existed; a theologian's study of thehistorical Jesus.
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narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past.
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noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of aphenomenon, as in language or economics.
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noun Rhetoric .
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obvious and intentional exaggeration.
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an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait aneternity.”
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iambic pentameter |
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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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French iambique 'of a foot or verse' and Greek pentameter 'measure of five' |
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an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituentelements, 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 likecharacteristics.
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a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people.
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a construction or expression of one language whose parts correspond to elements in anotherlanguage but whose total structure or meaning is not matched in the same way in the secondlanguage.
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the peculiar character or genius of a language.
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a distinct style or character, in music, art, etc.: the idiom of Bach.
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noun, plural im·age·ries.
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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: thedim imagery of a dream.
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pictorial images, as in works of art.
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the use of rhetorical images.
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figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.
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Psychology . mental images collectively, especially those produced by the action of imagination.
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a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted,sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
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an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror,refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their receptionon a surface.
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a mental representation; idea; conception.
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Psychology . a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of theoriginal stimulus.
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form; appearance; semblance: We are all created in God's image.
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not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
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not settled or decided.
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(of a quantity) undefined, as 0/0.
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(of an equation) able to be satisfied by more than one value for each unknown.
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A third party who makes a Customs declaration in their own name, but on behalf of a trader. |
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| Informal language may make use of slang and colloquialisms, employing the conventions of spoken language. However, it is too casual and loose to be acceptable for academic writing. |
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Literature. a form of stream-of-consciousness writing that represents the inner thoughts of acharacter.
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Movies, Television. the device of showing a character on screen who does not appear to speak,although the character's voice is heard on the soundtrack to create the illusion that the audience ishearing the character's thoughts.
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noun Prosody .
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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
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a rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse.
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noun, plural i·ro·nies.
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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply,“How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
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Literature.
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a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitudeopposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
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(especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give fullexpression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a meansof indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
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an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
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psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution ofwhich creates the plot's suspense: Hamlet's inaction is caused by internal conflict.
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mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.
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a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
Also, jar·goon [jahr-goon] Show IPA .
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an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
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the state of being close together or side by side.
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without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
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not according to the prescribed, official, or customary way or manner; irregular; unofficial: informalproceedings.
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suitable to or characteristic of casual and familiar, but educated, speech or writing.
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Grammar . characterizing the second singular pronominal or verbal form, or its use, in certainlanguages: the informal tu in French.
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