Daniel Costa
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Daniel Costa is a writer for Encyclopedia Britannica. He studied applied linguistics, philosophy, and history in the United Kingdom, at the universities of Southampton, London, and Birmingham, respectively. He has worked extensively as a language educator, teaching students from leading business companies worldwide.
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Iambic pentameter, in poetry, a line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The line can be rhymed, as in sonnets or heroic couplets (pairs of end-rhymed lines found in epic or…
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