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| To continue a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. |
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Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
(Ex: It wasn't bad.) |
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| A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite. |
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| A 10-15 line poem, divided into three stanza of 5, 3, and 5 lines, with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words of the first line used as a refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas. Poem of mourning. |
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| A 19-line poem with two rhymes thorughout, consisting of 4 tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tarcet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |
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| A lyrical poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. |
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