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adaptation Allegory Amphibrach Anapaest apple argument Asyndeton attention attri basis beauty called cause and effect clear common comparison and contrast composer conception condition connection conscious copula definite desire distinct effort Elegance elements emotions end sought energy essential euphony exposition fact feeling figure force given gives growing on trees guage hearer Hence idea ideal identity imagination impression individual induction inferred interpretation judgment language form law of unity liquid consonants literal literary logical means ment Metaphor Metonymy mind addressed move movement narration nature object oration oratory organic organic unity periodic sentence phases Pleonasm poem poetry Polysyndeton presented preter principle produced prose purpose reader reading relation requires resemblance rhetoric secured selection sense sentence Sir Launfal sound speak speaker style syllable syllogism Synecdoche Tautology tences theme things thought tion Trochee truth unified unit utterance vincing power whole words writer