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| 4385704500 | metaphysical | highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression | 0 | |
| 4385704502 | romantic | characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical | 1 | |
| 4385706224 | neoclassical | Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome | 2 | |
| 4385712239 | metonomy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing | 3 | |
| 4385712240 | synechdoche | a 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") | 4 | |
| 4385757909 | inverted syntax | when lines do not follow traditional sentence patterns, for example when the subject and verb or the object and subject are reversed | 5 | |
| 4385763955 | imperatives | requests, suggestions, advice, or commands | 6 | |
| 4385799587 | pathetic fallacy | the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature | 7 | |
| 4385801415 | tongue-in-cheek | without really meaning what one is saying or writing; joking or kidding | 8 | |
| 4385801416 | acrimonious | angry and bitter | 9 | |
| 4385801417 | rueful | expressing sorrow or regret, especially when in a slightly humorous way | 10 | |
| 4385811552 | foreboding | fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen | 11 | |
| 4385818841 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 12 | |
| 4385829537 | zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ) | 13 | |
| 4385831783 | panegyric | a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something | 14 | |
| 4385831784 | gerunds | a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing, e.g., asking in do you mind my asking you? | 15 | |
| 4385841214 | participles | an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend | 16 | |
| 4385843763 | intercession | the action of intervening on behalf of another | 17 | |
| 4385843764 | imprecation | a spoken curse | 18 | |
| 4385847982 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 19 | |
| 4385869645 | syllogism | an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ) | 20 | |
| 4385884756 | purple prose | prose that is too elaborate or ornate | 21 |
