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Literature

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

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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 ...

lyric verse

Literature; Poetry

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...