8855034739 | Efficacy | the ability to produce a desired or intended result | 0 | |
8855086534 | Terza Rima | An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc | 1 | |
8855106851 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 2 | |
8855990349 | Extended Metaphor | an author's exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story | 3 | |
8856000789 | Injurious | causing or likely to cause damage or harm | 4 | |
8856009760 | Ballad Meter | the meter common in English ballads consisting chiefly of iambic lines of 7 accents each arranged in rhymed pairs and usually printed as the 4-line ballad stanza | 5 | |
8856022248 | Symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract | 6 | |
8856030901 | Flippant | not showing a serious or respectful attitude | 7 | |
8856038533 | Congenital | having a particular trait from birth or by firmly established habit | 8 | |
8856045410 | Primeval | based on primitive instinct; raw and elementary | 9 | |
8856055226 | Epigrammatic | of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing | 10 | |
8856066082 | Heroic Couplet | a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope | 11 | |
8856074070 | Countenance | a person's face or facial expression | 12 | |
8856106512 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 13 | |
8856113212 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person | 14 | |
8856121383 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 15 | |
8856132316 | Embodiment | the representation or expression of something in a tangible or visible form | 16 | |
8856139625 | Impervious | unable to be affected by | 17 | |
8856149580 | Rhetorical devices | a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective | 18 | |
8856165514 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter | 19 |
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