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| 200299173 | Apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically | |
| 200299174 | Blank Verse | any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter | |
| 200299175 | Caesura | a natural pause or break | |
| 200299176 | Archetype | the usage of any object or situation as it was originally made | |
| 200299177 | Conceit | an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. | |
| 200299178 | Enjambent | the breaking of a syntactic unit by the end of a line between two verses. | |
| 200299179 | Euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener. | |
| 200299180 | Epigram | brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. | |
| 200299181 | Epiphany | term for the sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene. | |
| 200299182 | Inversion | reordering the words from their usual order in order to provide literary value | |
| 200299183 | Masculine Rhyme | a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words | |
| 200299184 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme in which the stress is on the the second from the last syllable of the words | |
| 200299185 | Metonymy | a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. | |
| 200299186 | Paradox | a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition | |
| 200299187 | Pathetic Fallacy | the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations. | |
| 200299188 | Synecdoche | figure of speech where part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or a whole is used to refer to part of it. |
