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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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catalog verse

Literature; Poetry

A poem comprised of a list of persons, places, things, or abstract ideas which share a common denominator. An ancient form, it was originally a type of didactic poetry.

catalectic

Literature; Poetry

Metrically incomplete; the dropping of one or two unaccented syllables from the end of a line, thus ending with an incomplete foot.

canto

Literature; Poetry

A major division of a long or extended poem. A canto of a poem corresponds to a chapter of a novel.

canzone

Literature; Poetry

A medieval Italian or Provençal lyric poem of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding short stanza or envoi.

carmina figurata

Literature; Poetry

See Pattern Poetry

carpe diem

Literature; Poetry

Latin for "seize the day," a common motif in lyric verse throughout the history of poetry, with the emphasis on making the most of current pleasures because life is short and time ...

catachresis

Literature; Poetry

Misuse or abuse of words; the use of the wrong word for the context, as atone for repent, ingenuous for ingenious, or a forced trope in which a word is used too far removed from ...