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| the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another |
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| the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something |
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play |
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| the part of a literary plot in which the climax has passed and the conflict has been resolved |
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| to prevent the success of or frustrate |
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| a recurring subject, theme, or idea especially in a literary, dramatic, or musical work |
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| a state or quality of feeling at a particular time |
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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something |
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| a portrayal or a description |
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| a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem |
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| the act of repeating a performance or a presentation |
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| identity in sound of some part, especially in the end, of words or lines in a verse |
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| the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likeliness of things |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite or its literal meaning |
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| ways of writing that pertain to senses or sensations |
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| something used for regarded as a representation of something else |
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| a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition |
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| any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, or source |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter |
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| a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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| movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat accent or the like |
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