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Poesy

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Poetry

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Epic

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A long poem about the deeds of great people or a nations history.

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Idyll

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A simple written description of rural life and pastoral scenes.

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Couplet

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Two successive lines in poetry rhyming with each other.

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Doggerel

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Undignified or trivial verse, or verse that is badly constructed.

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Caesura

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A break or pause in a line of poetry.

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Epilogue

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A concluding section of a book or play, usually addressed to the audience.

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Anthology

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A collection of selected literary works.

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Tome

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A large, heavy book.

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Disquisition

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A detailed, rather formal discussion or essay.

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Allegory

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A story in which people, things, or events have symbolic meanings.

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Hyperbole

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Great exaggeration for effect.

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Personification

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An attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects; or an embodiment or perfect example.

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Irony

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An inconsistency between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen, or between what appears to be the case and what is the case.

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Paradox

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A statement that seems self-contradictory but that may be true.

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Pun

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A play on words that have the same or similar sounds but different meanings.

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Browse

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To glance through a book, library, or store in a leisurely, casual way.

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Peruse

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To read carefully or thoroughly.

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Collate

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To make a detailed comparison between pieces of writing; or to put in order pages of a manuscript.

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Plagiarism

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Stealing words or ideas from another and passing then off as ones own.

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Elocution

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The art of speaking clearly and expressively before an audience.

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Declaim

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To speak in an elaborate, rhetorical manner or deliver on a voice strong with emotion.

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Forensic

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Pertaining to public debate.

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Prose

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Speech or writing without metrical structure, as opposed to poetry.

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Repartee

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A quick, witty reply or conversation.

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Colloquy

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A conversation, conference, or dialogue.

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Soliloquy

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A monologue; or the act of talking to oneself, usually in a play.

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Symposium

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A conference at which a particular subject is discussed.

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Prate

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To chatter, babble, or talk foolishly and at length.

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Reticence

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The state of quality of being quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative.

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Mummery

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A masked performance; or a ridiculous performance or empty show.

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Tableau

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A vivid picture or representation; or a representation of a scene by the grouping of silent, motionless persons in appropriate poses.

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Syntax

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Sentence structure, or the arrangement of words in a sentence.

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Collocation

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A grouping or arrangement especially of words.

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Idiom

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A correct expression that is unusual in form or meaning.

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Diphthong

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Two vowels united into a single, complex sound.

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Lexicon

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A dictionary or vocabulary book, particularly Greek, Hebrew, or Latin; or a special vocabulary.

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Italic

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A style of type in which the letters slant.

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Caret

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A sign used for marking a place in writing where something has to be put in.

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Parenthesis

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Explanatory words inserted in a sentence; or the punctuation setting off such an expression.

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Cuneiform

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Old Babylonian and Assyrian writing formed of wedge-shaped marks.

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Notation

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A system of signs or symbols.

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Emendation

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A correction or removal of errors, especially in a literary work.

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Prosaic

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Unimaginative, commonplace, or dull.

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Stilted

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Pompous or artificially formal.

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Terse

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Concise, succinct, or to the point.

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Succinct

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Compressed, concise, or terse.

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Discursive

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Rambling, or wandering from topic to topic.

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Allude

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To mention or refer to indirectly.

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Iterate

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To repeat.

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Dictum

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An authoritative statement, ruling, or formal pronouncement.

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Conundrum

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A riddle, problem, or unanswerable question.

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Ineffable

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That which cannot be expressed in speech.

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Epithet

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A description name or title for a person.

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Pseudonym

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A fictitious name or a pen name.

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Alto

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The second-highest voice in four-part harmony.

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Treble

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High-pitched or soprano. Threefold or treble.

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Ballad

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A poem or song that tells a story in simple words.

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Recitative

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Language uttered as in ordinary speech, but in musical tones.

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Libretto

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The words or text of an opera or other long choral work.

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Descant

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A melody sung or player in harmony with the main melody.

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Étude

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A musical study for a solo instrument, designed to give practice in some point of technique.

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Thrum

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To strum or play a stringed instrument monotonously; or a dull sound similar to strumming.

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Dulcet

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Sweet, pleasant, or agreeable to the ear.

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Dissonant

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Harsh or unharmonious in sound; not in agreement.

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