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| Speech or writing without metrical structure, as opposed to poetry. |
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| a long poem about the deeds of great people or a nation's history |
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| A simple written description of rural life and pastoral scenes. |
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| Two successive lines in poetry rhyming with each other |
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| Undignified or trivial verse, or verse that is badly constructed |
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| A break or a pause in a line of poetry |
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| A concluding section of the book or play, usually addressed to the audience |
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| A collection of selected literary works |
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| Great exaggeration for effect |
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| A story in which people, things, or events have symbolic meanings |
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| A detailed, rather formal discussion or essay |
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| An attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects; or an embodiment or perfect example |
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| An inconsistency of what is expected to happen and what actually does happen; or what appears to be the case and what is the case; or a sarcastic use of words to express the opposite of the speaker's thought |
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| A statement that seems self-contradictory but that may be true |
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| A play on words that have the same or similar sounds but different meanings |
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| To glance through a book, library, or store in a leisurely, casual way |
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| To read carefully or thoroughly |
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| To make a detailed comparison between pieces of writing; or to put in order pages of a manuscript |
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| Stealing words or ideas from another and passing them off as one's own |
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