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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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ploce

Literature; Poetry

The general term for a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated in close proximity within a clause or line, usually for emphasis or for extended significance, as "A ...

pleiade

Literature; Poetry

Named after the open cluster in the constellation Taurus, a group of 16th century French poets who sought to restore the level of French poetry from its decline in the Middle Ages ...

pleiad

Literature; Poetry

Named after the open cluster in the constellation Taurus, a group of 16th century French poets who sought to restore the level of French poetry from its decline in the Middle Ages ...

pleonasm

Literature; Poetry

Redundancy; the use of more words than necessary to express the sense of a thing, but which often stress or enrich the thought, such as, "I touched it with my own hands" or "a ...

play on words

Literature; Poetry

See Paronomasia, Pun

pindaric verse

Literature; Poetry

In Greek literature, a poem designed for song, of various meters and of lofty style, patterned after the odes of the classical Greek poet, Pindar. Though metrically complex, and ...