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  2. Template:Text and translation - Wikipedia

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    —{{{3}}} Template documentation [view] [history] [purge] Usage This template allows for the presentation of text in a language other than English alongside an English translation of that text. It is primarily designed for rendering poetic texts and their translations in parallel columns that are responsive to devices with display sizes smaller than a personal computer's screen. That is, on a ...

  3. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  4. Kenning - Wikipedia

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    A modern English example is "painted Jezebel" as a disapproving expression for a woman too fond of using cosmetics. Kennings may include proper names. A modern example of this is an ad hoc usage by a helicopter ambulance pilot: "the Heathrow of hang gliders " for the hills behind Hawes in Yorkshire in England, when he found the air over the ...

  5. Template:Verse transliteration-translation - Wikipedia

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    {{verse transliteration-translation | lang = ja | originalHeading = Original Japanese | 屋根より 高い 鯉のぼり 大きい 真鯉は お父さん 小さい 緋鯉は 子供たち 面白そうに 泳いでる | transliterationHeading = Rōmaji | yane yori takai koinobori ōkii magoi wa otōsan chiisai higoi wa kodomo-tachi omoshirosō ni oyoideru | translationHeading = English ...

  6. Template:Verse translation - Wikipedia

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    This template may be used when a verse text in its original language and its translation into English are to be displayed together. It displays the original text in italics and the translation in roman type. Optionally, it displays attributions for each text below. The main parameter set is the following:

  7. Conduit metaphor - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions used when discussing communication itself (metalanguage).It operates whenever people speak or write as if they "insert" their mental contents (feelings, meanings, thoughts, concepts, etc.) into "containers" (words, phrases, sentences, etc.) whose contents are then "extracted" by listeners and readers.

  8. Imagery - Wikipedia

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    Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as. Imagery in literature can also be instrumental in conveying tone. [1]

  9. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...