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  2. Personification - Wikipedia

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    Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person. It is, in other words, considered an embodiment or an incarnation. [ 1 ] In the arts , many things are commonly personified.

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.

  4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Paronomasia: pun in which similar-sounding words but words having a different meaning are used. Pathetic fallacy: ascribing human conduct and feelings to nature. Personification: attributing or applying human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. Pleonasm: the use of more words than is necessary for clear expression.

  5. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, the referential function is associated with an element whose true value is under questioning especially when the truth value is identical in both the real and assumptive universe. The poetic function: focuses on "the message for its own sake" [3] (how the code is used) and is the operative function in poetry as well as slogans.

  6. Pathetic fallacy - Wikipedia

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    John Ruskin at Glenfinlas, Scotland (1853–54), by John Everett Millais. [1]The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human.

  7. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The second chapter gives meaning to the first, as it explains other events the character experienced and thus puts present events in context. In Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner , the first short chapter occurs in the narrative's real-time; most of the remainder of the book is a flashback.

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1275 on Sunday, December 15 ...

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    Hints and the solution for today's Wordle on Sunday, December 15.

  9. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...