Literature

Literature

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

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closet drama

Literature; Poetry

A literary work written in the form of a drama, but intended by the author only for reading, not for performance in the theater.

clerihew

Literature; Poetry

A pseudo biographical poem, four lines long. A clerihew follows an aabb rhyming pattern, so the first two and last two lines rhyme. Clerihews usually are about the individual ...

climax

Literature; Poetry

Rhetorically, a series of words, phrases, or sentences arranged in a continuously ascending order of intensity. If the ascending order is not maintained, an anticlimax or bathos ...

closed couplet

Literature; Poetry

A couplet in which the sense and syntax is self- contained within its two lines, as opposed to an open couplet.

classicism

Literature; Poetry

The adherence to traditional standards that are universally valid and enduring.

cliche

Literature; Poetry

well worn or tired phrase

clarity pyramid

Literature; Poetry

A Clarity Pyramid is a poem consisting of two triplets and a single line (7 lines in all). Usually, this poem is center aligned when displayed. The first triplet has 1, 2, and 3 ...