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6476423599Free Versevers libre; poetry free from the regular meters, rhythm, or rhyme scheme; Usually found in contemporary poetry, although the movement was begun by realists and modernists, such as Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound.0
6495699862Cacophonya series of short, consonant sounds that create a discordant, harsh, and unmelodious feeling that is unpleasant to listen to. Oftentimes relying on onomatopoeia, alliteration, or consonance, the difference is that cacophony is deliberately made to sound as unpleasant as possible.1
6495719908Euphonycreates a sweet, melodious sounds by using soft consonant and long vowel sounds; created by using assonance, alliteration, and rhyme2
6495731288moorMuslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages, who initially were Berber and Arab peoples of North Africa3
6495742525furtivesuggestive of guilty nervousness4
6495744129imperturableincapable of being disturbed5
6495746479implacableimpossible to calm down or be made peaceful6
6500617274taciturndescribing a person who is usually reserved and uncommunicative7
6500629094Enumerationthe action of mentioning a number of things one by one8
6500631492dubiousdoubtful9

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