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  2. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The repetition of identical or similar sounds, usually accented vowel sounds and succeeding consonant sounds at the end of words, and often at the ends of lines of prose or poetry. [7] For example, in the following lines from a poem by A. E. Housman, the last words of both lines rhyme with each other. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

  3. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".

  4. Latin tenses in dependent clauses - Wikipedia

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    Inner Meaning Outer Meaning Paradigm Latin example English translation Comment relative past in future past in future in present ' fore infinitive of periphrastic perfect' hoc possum dīcere, mē satis adeptum fore, sī nūllum in mē perīculum redundārit (Cicero) [26] 'I can say this, that I will have achieved enough, if no danger redounds ...

  5. William Lily (grammarian) - Wikipedia

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    Part of the grammar is a poem, "Carmen de Moribus", which lists school regulations in a series of pithy sentences, using a broad vocabulary, and examples of most of the rules of Latin grammar that were part of an English grammar school curriculum. (See Latin mnemonics.) The poem is an early reinforcement of part of the reading list in Erasmus ...

  6. Latin periphrases - Wikipedia

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    Auxiliary paradigms in the fore future infinitive periphrasis Paradigm Latin example Meaning Comment 'subjunctive present' fore ut dūcam: future in present 'that I will lead' fore ut dūcar: future in present 'that I will be led' 'subjunctive imperfect' fore ut dūcerem: future in past 'that I was going to lead' fore ut dūcerer: future in past

  7. Ars grammatica - Wikipedia

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    An ars grammatica (English: art of grammar) is a generic or proper title for surveys of Latin grammar. The first ars grammatica seems to have been composed by Remmius Palaemon (first century CE), but is now lost. [1] The most famous ars grammatica since late antiquity has been that composed by Donatus.

  8. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation. Figurative (or non-literal) language is the usage of words in a way that deviates from their conventionally accepted definitions in order to convey a more complex meaning or a heightened effect. [1]

  9. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Extended metaphor (aka sustained metaphor): the exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors and vehicles throughout a poem. [ 5 ] Allegory : an extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning.