Literature

Literature

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

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anticlimax

Literature; Poetry

The intentional use of elevated language to describe the trivial or commonplace, or a sudden transition from a significant thought to a trivial one in order to achieve a humorous ...

anaphora

Literature; Poetry

the repetition of an opening word or phrase in throughout a number of lines.

anastrophe

Literature; Poetry

A type of hyperbaton involving the inversion of the natural or usual syntactical order of a pair of words for rhetorical or poetic effect.

aagoge

Literature; Poetry

The spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense.

anagogy

Literature; Poetry

The spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense.

anapest

Literature; Poetry

a metrical foot composed of two weaker syllables followed by a stronger, (or 'stressed') syllable.

analogy

Literature; Poetry

An agreement or similarity in some particulars between things otherwise different; sleep and death, for example, are analogous in that they both share a lack of animation and a ...