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| a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. |
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| something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: |
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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
Compare epistrophe (def 1), symploce. |
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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
Compare epistrophe (def 1), symploce. |
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| harsh discordance of sound; dissonance |
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| characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. |
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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”.
the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning. |
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| the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience. |
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| excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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an act or instance of inverting.
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the state of being inverted.
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anything that is inverted.
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Rhetoric. reversal of the usual or natural order of words; anastrophe.
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Grammar. any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as |
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| the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: |
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