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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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trope

Literature; Poetry

The intentional use of a word or expression figuratively, i.e., used in a different sense from its original significance in order to give vividness or emphasis to an idea. Some ...

trochaic

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot with a long or accented syllable followed by a short or unaccented syllable, as in only or total, or the opening line of Poe's "The Raven," Once up | on a ...

trochee

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot with a long or accented syllable followed by a short or unaccented syllable, as in only or total, or the opening line of Poe's "The Raven," Once up | on a ...

troilus verse

Literature; Poetry

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triolet

Literature; Poetry

A poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth, with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB.