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a style of writing and speaking that is descriptive, e.g. The muddy brown waters of the great Orange River churned past the bridge, looking for all the world like the product of a demented water machine stuck in overdrive.
a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things, which have at least...
See degrees of comparison of adjectives and degrees of comparison of adverbs.
a long lyric poem, which is serious in subject matter and lofty in style, e.g. Ode: Intimations...
a literary genre consisting of an arrangement of meaningful and musical words. Most poems take...
a list at the front of a book giving the page numbers and titles of chapters and other features...