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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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controlling metaphor
Literature; Poetry
a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else.
concrete poetry
Literature; Poetry
Poetry which forms a structurally original visual shape, preferably abstract, through the use of reduced language, fragmented letters, symbols and other typographical variations ...
conceit
Literature; Poetry
An elaborate metaphor, often strained or far-fetched, in which the subject is compared with a simpler analogue usually chosen from nature or a familiar context.
closure
Literature; Poetry
The effect of finality, balance, and completeness which leaves the reader with a sense of fulfilled expectations. Though the term is sometimes employed to describe the effects of ...
common measure
Literature; Poetry
A meter consisting chiefly of seven iambi feet arranged in rhymed pairs, thus a line with four accents followed by a line with three accents, usually in a four-line stanza. It is ...
close rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A rhyme of two contiguous or close words, such as in the idiomatic expressions, "true blue" or "fair and square."
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