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

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rictameter

Literature; Poetry

This is a form of verse called rictameter. The 1st and last lines are the same words. Line 1= 2 syllables, line 2=4, line 3=6, line 4= 8, line 5= 10, line 6=8, line 7=6, line 8=4 ...

rhyming slang

Literature; Poetry

A slang popular in Great Britain in the early part of the 20th century, in which a word was replaced by a word or phrase that rhymed with it, as loaf of bread for head. When the ...

romanticism

Literature; Poetry

An 18th century movement revolting against the conventional strictness of neo-classicism and placing artistic emphasis on imagination and the emotions.

rhythm

Literature; Poetry

An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem as determined by the arses and theses of the metrical feet, i.e., the ...

rich rhyme

Literature; Poetry

See Perfect Rhyme

rhymester

Literature; Poetry

An inferior poet.

ricochet words

Literature; Poetry

Hyphenated words, usually formed by reduplicating a word with a change in the radical vowel or the initial consonant sound, such as pitter- patter, chit-chat, riff-raff, ...