Literature

Literature

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

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empathy

Literature; Poetry

The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of another, thus imagining the same ...

elision

Literature; Poetry

The omission of a letter or syllable as a means of contraction, generally to achieve a uniform metrical pattern, but sometimes to smooth the pronunciation; most such omissions are ...

ellipsis

Literature; Poetry

The omission of a word or words necessary to complete a grammatical construction, but which is easily understood by the reader, such as "the virtues I esteem" for "the virtues ...

emblem poems

Literature; Poetry

See Pattern Poetry

elegy

Literature; Poetry

A poem of lament, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person; also, a meditative poem in plaintive or sorrowful mood.

elegiac stanza

Literature; Poetry

See Heroic Quatrain

elegiac

Literature; Poetry

A dactylic hexameter couplet, with the second line having only an unaccented syllable in the third and sixth feet; also, of or relating to the period in Greece when elegies ...