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allegory


Allegory is similar to metaphor, but is usually more elaborate. In an allegorical narrative, each character (or, sometimes, object) has both a literal meaning and a consistent metaphorical meaning, an [..]
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chain lines


Before the twentieth century, paper was made in a mold. The size was set by a frame; at the bottom was a wire mesh. Workers would dip the mold into a vat of pulp — usually made from rags, no [..]
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dactyl


A kind of metrical foot. A dactyl is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables: for example, "Canada," "holiday," "camouflage." (The name comes from the Gr [..]
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personification


When something other than a human being (often an abstract quality) is treated as a human being — as when we speak of blind Justice — it is said to be personified. See also allegor [..]
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zeugma


Zeugma (Greek for "yoking") — a term from rhetoric — is the figure in which one word (usually a verb) governs several objects. ???
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affective fallacy


An important principle of New Criticism is the avoidance of what William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley called the Affective Fallacy — the fallacy of confusing a work of literature with [..]
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alexandrine


An Alexandrine is a verse of iambic hexameter — i.e., a verse of six feet, each of which has the stress on the second beat. Although twelve-syllable verses are very common in French poetry, [..]
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alliteration


The repetition of sounds, especially consonant sounds, within a passage of prose or verse. The repetition of vowel sounds is sometimes distinguished from alliteration and called assonance. Consonance [..]
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amphibrach


A metrical foot. The term means "short (brachys) on either side (amphi)," which perfectly describes the foot — a stressed syllable surrounded by two unstressed syllables. Some amph [..]
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anapest


A kind of metrical foot. An anapest (or anapaest) comprises two unstressed syllables and one stressed one: for example, "unabridged," "intercede," "on the loose." Because [..]
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