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4409449302metonymya substitute of a name for an attribute of that name (ex. suit for businessman)0
4409449303literary apostrophewhen a writer detaches himself from reality to address an imaginary object1
4409449304aubadea piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone2
4409451366iambic tri/tetra/penta/hexa/heptametera line with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables3
4409451367causuraa strong, natural grammatical pause4
4409453876synecdochea figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team")5
4409453877sestetsix-line section of an Italian sonnet6
4409453878octavethe first part of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet; a set of eight lines that rhyme according to the pattern ABBAABBA7
4409453931couplettwo lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit8
4409453932quatraina stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes9
4425765194sestinaa fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi10

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