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A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression.
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Convention
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Explicitly instructive. Examples: Pope's "Essay on Man;" Ayn Rand novels.
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Didactic
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A pithy saying, often using contrast. Also: a verse form, usually brief and pointed.
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Epigram
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A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead"...
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Euphemism
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A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. "All...
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Syllogism
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4-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines 1 and 3, and three feet in lines 2 and 4
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Ballad Meter
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A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables....
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Dactyl
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Blank verse
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Poetry that is rythmical yet not in traditional meter
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Free verse
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Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed...
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Heroic couplet
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A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. e.g....
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Iamb
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A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval...
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Rhyme royal
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A three-line stanca rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. (Dante's Divine Comedy)
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Terza rima
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