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An exaggeration or overstatement
-I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
-He's as big as a house. |
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A lyric poem regretting the arrival of dawn
- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear |
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Of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral. Of, or pertaining to, rural life.
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Christopher Marlowe |
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Reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases
-- Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike. |
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(in ancient Greek and Roman drama) A god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
- A classical Greek actor, portraying a Greek, might be lowered onto the stage and then use his divine powers to solve all the mortals' problems. |
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The matter or substance used to expand an idea, statement, or the like.
-He added an extra paragraph to his speech as an amplification. |
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