Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

When something can be said to give visible or tangible form to a thought, idea, or ideal, that thing can be said to 'embody' that concept. This use is also sometimes applied to a person or place.

As a derivative, you can also say that that person, place, or thing is the 'embodiment' of that concept.

"The dog was the living embodiment of loyalty."

The most normal linelength for a sonnet - in almost all the countries where they are found - is the standard Heroiclinelength for that country.

In France sonnets are written mainly in Alexandrines, in Italy in Hendecasyllables, and in England in Iambic Pentameter. Shakespearean sonnets are in iambic pentameter.

There is a similar line, famous and oft-quoted, in Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness Lady were no crime.

We would sit down and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love's day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges' side

Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the flood,

And you should, if you please, refuse

Till the conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires and more slow;

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;

Two hundred to adore each breast,

But thirty thousand to the rest;

An age at least to every part,

And the last age should show your heart.

For, lady, you deserve this state,

Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear

Times winged chariot hurrying near;

And yonder all before us lie

Deserts of vast eternity.

Thy beauty shall no more be found;

Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound

My echoing song; then worms shall try

That long preserved virginity,

And your quaint honor turn to dust,

And into ashes all my lust:

The grave's a fine and private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore while the youthful hue

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,

And while thy willing soul transpires

At every pore with instant fires,

Now let us sport us while we may,

And now, like amorous birds of prey,

Rather at once our time devour

Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Let us roll all our strength and all

Our sweetness up into one ball,

And tear our pleasures with rough strife

Thorough the iron gates of life:

Thus, though we cannot make our sun

Stand still, yet we will make him run.

This is one type of "acronym" (other than initialisms such as NASA and AARP). Acronyms such as RAM, radar, and scuba can become words in their own right.

Acronyms can become anachronisms, or "anacronyms" if the original source words are forgotten or unfamiliar. The word "flak" was originally used to describe anti-aircraft fire and comes from the German "FLieger AbwehrKanonen", or air defense cannons.

The plural form of the noun 'sex' is sexes, a word for the two main divisions of the gender of living things.

The noun 'sex' is an uncountable noun as a word for the process of procreation.

The word 'sex' is also a verb.

1) When the Apex or point of the Spade points up in the reading it means a conclusion, an ending. Considered the Death Card, meaning the death of circumstances, not people, 90% of the time. Remember, with death, there is always a new beginning. Death in reading cards is a door offering a new beginning. 2) Apex pointing down: The card is telling you about someone or something at a distance, not in this location, usually quite far away.

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