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acrostic
Literature; General
An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message.
assonance
Literature; General
Assonance is the refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse.
consonance
Literature; General
Consonance is a stylistic device, most commonly used in poetry and songs, characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" or in "all ...
anagram
Literature; General
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, ...
univocalic
Literature; General
A univocalic is a type of constrained writing that uses only one vowel-letter (i.e., only uses one of A, E, I, O, or U). It can thus be considered a lipogram, excluding the other four vowels.
retronim
Literature; General
A retronym is a new name for an object or concept to differentiate the original form or version of it from a more recent form or version. Examples of retronyms are "acoustic guitar" (coined when ...
self-reference
Literature; General
Self-reference occurs in literature and film when an author refers to his work in the context of the work itself. Famous examples include Cervantes's Don Quixote and Italo Calvino's If on a winter's ...
