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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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pastourelle

Literature; Poetry

A form of pastoral poetry associated chiefly with French writers of the 12th and 13th centuries. Typically, the narrator, identified as a knight, recounts his love affair with a ...

syncope

Literature; Poetry

A type of elision in which a word is contracted by removing one or more letters or syllables from the middle, as ne'er for never, or fo'c'sle for forecastle.

syncopation

Literature; Poetry

In the quantitive verse of classical poetry, the suppression of one syllable in a metrical pattern, with its time value either replaced by a pause (like a musician's "rest") or by ...

synalepha

Literature; Poetry

A type of elision in which a vowel at the end of one word is coalesced with one beginning the next word, as "th' embattled plain."

synaloepha

Literature; Poetry

A type of elision in which a vowel at the end of one word is coalesced with one beginning the next word, as "th' embattled plain."

syneresis

Literature; Poetry

A type of elision in which two contiguous vowels within a word which are normally pronounced as two syllables, as in seest, are pronounced as one syllable instead.

synaeresis

Literature; Poetry

A type of elision in which two contiguous vowels within a word which are normally pronounced as two syllables, as in seest, are pronounced as one syllable instead.