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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| metaphor | /xx | Noun, Noun |
| analogy | x/xx | Noun |
| allusion | x/x | Noun |
| metonymy | x/xx | Noun |
| stanza | /x | Noun |
| allegory | /xxx | Noun |
| epigram | /xx | Noun |
| poetical | x/xx | Name |
| verse | / | Noun |
| comparison | x/xx | Noun |
| poetic | x/x | Adjective |
| phrase | / | Noun |
| synecdoche | /x/ | Noun |
| personification | xxxx/x | Noun |
| similitude | x/xx | Noun |
| alliteration | x/xxx | Noun |
| adjective | /xx | Noun |
| poem | /x | Noun |
| paraphrase | /xx | Noun |
| rhyme | / | Noun |
| lyric | /x | Noun |
| parable | /xx | Noun |
| idiom | /xx | Noun |
| fable | /x | Noun |
| quatrain | xx | Noun |
| referent | /xx | Noun |
| proverb | /x | Noun |
| sonnet | /x | Noun |
| anecdote | /xx | Noun |
| remark | x/ | Noun |
| cliche | x/ | Noun |
| hyperbole | x/xx | Noun |
| allegorical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| locution | x/x | Noun |
| illustration | xx/x | Noun |
| phraseology | xx/xx | Noun |
| epithet | /xx | Noun |
| quotation | x/x | Noun |
| partitive | /xx | Adjective |
| analogical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| figurative | /xxx | Adjective |
| aphorism | /xxx | Noun |
| syllogistic | /x/x | Adjective |
| tautology | //xx | Noun |
| participial | x/xxx | Adjective |
| comparative | x/xx | Name |
| periphrastic | x//x | Adjective |
| strophe | / | Noun |
| prepositional | xx/xx | Adjective |
| prose | / | Noun |
| couplet | /x | Noun |
| hackneyed | /x | Adjective |
| quale | / | Noun |
| sentence | /x | Noun |
| epigraph | xx/ | Noun |
| colloquial | x/xx | Noun |
| pail | / | Noun |
| exemplification | x/xx/x | Noun |
| facile | /x | Noun |
| punning | /x | Noun |
| explication | xx/x | Noun |
| diction | /x | Noun |
| signification | /xx/x | Noun |
| inference | /xx | Noun |
| utterance | /xx | Noun |
| symbolization | /xx/x | Noun |
| symbolical | x/xx | Adjective |
| figure | /x | Noun |
| figure of speech | /x// | Phrase, Noun |
| imagery | /xx | Noun |
| such | / | Adjective |
| trope | x | Noun |
| antithesis | x/xx | Noun |
| contrast | /x | Noun |
| one and the same | //x/ | Phrase, Noun |
| synonymy | /xxx | Noun |
| understatement | /xxx | Noun |
| synonym | /xx | Noun |
| oxymoron | x//x | Noun |
| letter | /x | Noun |
| fac | / | Adjective |
| likening | /xx | Verb |
| homeric | x/x | Adjective |
| orchid | /x | Noun |
| woodcut | /x | Noun |
| homely | /x | Adjective |
| footprint | /x | Noun |
| epic | /x | Adjective |
| trite | / | Adjective |
| miniature | /xxx | Noun |
| sanguinary | /xxx | Adjective |
| chariot | /xx | Noun |
| raft | / | Noun |
| cave | / | Noun |
| iliad | /xx | Name |
| annexed | /x | Verb |
| annotated | xx/x | Adjective |
| aria | /xx | Noun |
| autographs | /xx | Noun |
| elegy | /xx | Noun |
| epitaph | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| epitome | x/xx | Noun |
| extant | /x | Adjective |
| facsimile | x/xx | Noun, Verb |
| fae | / | Noun, Adjective |
| foe | / | Noun, Adjective |
| haiku | /x | Noun |
| herewith | // | Adverb |
| holograph | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| idiomatic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| illegible | x/xx | Adjective |
| legible | /xx | Adjective |
| letterpress | /xx | Noun |
| lithograph | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| manuscript | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| mimeographed | /xxx | Verb, Adjective |
| prologue | /x | Noun, Verb |
| quarto | /x | Noun |
| reprinted | x/x | Adjective |
| story | /x | Noun, Verb |
| unabridged | xx/ | Adjective, Name |
| undated | x/x | Adjective |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| collocation | xx/x | Noun |
| chunk | / | Noun, Verb |
| cluster | /x | Noun, Verb |
| vernacular | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| standard | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| dialect | /xx | Noun |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| tell | / | Verb, Noun |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| headlines | /x | Noun |
| anymore | xx/ | Adverb |
