the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities Example

 meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables

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 the implied or suggested meaning connected with a word

 the dictionary meaning of a word

 limited to the simplest, ordinary, most obvious meaning

 associative or connotative meaning; representational

 measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse

 correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse

 a direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, or a person not living or present Example