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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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decasyllable
Literature; Poetry
A metrical line of ten syllables or a poem composed of ten-syllable lines.
dadaism
Literature; Poetry
A short-lived WWI European movement in arts and literature based on deliberate irrationality and the negation of traditional artistic values.
dactyl
Literature; Poetry
A metrical foot of three syllables, the first of which is long or accented and the next two short or unaccented.
cycle
Literature; Poetry
The aggregate of accumulated literature, plays or musical works treating the same theme. In poetry, the term is typically applied to epic or narrative poems about a mythical or ...
cross rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A rhyme scheme of abab, also called alternate rhyme. The term derives from long-line verse such as hexameter in which two lines have caesural words rhymed together and end words ...
cretic
Literature; Poetry
Used in ancient poetry, a metrical foot consisting of a short syllable between two long syllables, as in thirty-nine.
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