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language that conveys the emotion of the person speaking or writing: anger, love, hate and...

a style of writing and speaking that conveys the emotions of the writer or speaker, e.g. I canâ...

a pronoun that emphasises the person referred to The suffix -self to the word concerned, e.g....

rhyming words at the end of the lines in a poem. Some common patterns for end rhyme are

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a line of poetry with a pause at the end, sometimes signalled by a punctuation mark, e.g. The...

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