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  1. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
  2. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  3. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  4. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  5. prosopopoeia
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
  6. kenning
    a compound word serving as a metaphorical name for something
  7. dactyl
    a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates
  8. pyrrhic
    relating to a victory that is offset by staggering losses
  9. dibrach
    a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
  10. spondee
    a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
  11. anapaest
    two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
  12. amphibrach
    a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')
  13. trochee
    a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
  14. iamb
    a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
  15. catalexis
    the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse
  16. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  17. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  18. colophon
    a publisher's emblem printed in a book
  19. synaesthesia
    a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
Created on Fri May 09 06:32:17 EDT 2008

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