Literature

Literature

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

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criticaster

Literature; Poetry

An inferior or petty critic.

couplet

Literature; Poetry

Two successive lines of poetry, usually of equal length and rhythmic correspondence, with end-words that rhyme. The couplet, for practical purposes, is the shortest stanza form, ...

courtly love

Literature; Poetry

A late medieval idealized convention establishing a code for the conduct of amorous affairs of ladies and their lovers. Expressed and spread by the minnesingers and troubadours, ...

crambo

Literature; Poetry

A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to be matched in rhyme by the other players.

conventions

Literature; Poetry

In a literary sense, established "codes" of basic principles and procedures for types of works that are recurrent in literature. The prevailing conventions of their time strongly ...

connotation

Literature; Poetry

The suggestion of a meaning by a word beyond what it explicitly denotes or describes. The word, home, for example, means the place where one lives, but by connotation, also ...

consonance

Literature; Poetry

A pleasing combination of sounds; sounds in agreement with tone. Also, the close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds.