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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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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 ...

companion poem

Literature; Poetry

A poem that is associated with another, which it complements.

close rhyme

Literature; Poetry

A rhyme of two contiguous or close words, such as in the idiomatic expressions, "true blue" or "fair and square."