Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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broadside ballad

Literature; Poetry

A ballad written in doggerel, printed on a single sheet of paper and sold for a penny or two on English street corners in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The name of the ...

broken rhyme

Literature; Poetry

Also called split rhyme, a rhyme produced by dividing a word at the line break to make a rhyme with the end word of another line.

bouts-rimes

Literature; Poetry

An 18th century parlor game in which a list of rhyming words was drawn up and handed to the players, who had to make a poem from the list keeping the rhymes in their original ...

boustrophedon

Literature; Poetry

Boustrophedon is an ancient method of writing (prose or poetry) in which the lines are inscribed alternately from right to left and from left to right. The interesting challenge ...

blank verse

Literature; Poetry

Poetry written without rhymes, but which retains a set metrical pattern, usually iambic pentameter (or five iambic feet per line) in English verse. Since it is a very flexible ...

baroque

Literature; Poetry

An elaborate, extravagantly complex, sometimes grotesque, style of artistic expression prevalent in the late sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries. The baroque influence on ...

bathos

Literature; Poetry

An unintentional shift from the sublime to the ridiculous which can result from the use of overly elevated language to describe trivial subject matter, or from an exaggerated ...