Poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art making use of rythmic and aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings. Poetry has a long history evolving from folk music.

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malapropism

Literature; Poetry

A mistaken substitution of one word for another that sounds similar, generally with humorous effect, as in "arduous romance" for "ardent romance."

macaronic verse

Literature; Poetry

Originally, poetry in which words of different languages were mixed together or, more strictly, words in the poet's venacular were given the inflectional endings of another language, usually for ...

One of the main groups of poetry, the others being narrative and dramatic. By far the most frequently used form in modern poetic literature, the term lyric includes all poems in which the speaker's ...

luc bat

Literature; Poetry

This Vietnamese form (pronounced Luk-BAHT, meaning "six-eight"), alternates odd-number lines of six syllables and even-number line. The eighth (the last) syllable of each even-number line rhymes with ...

litotes

Literature; Poetry

A type of meiosis (understatement) in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.

lira

Literature; Poetry

This is a Spanish style of poetry that utilizes a couple of eleven syllable lines. This is interesting, because most of the romance languages use 11 syllable lines commonly in their poetry...English ...