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Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art making use of rythmic and aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings. Poetry has a long history evolving from folk music.
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anticlimax
Literature; Poetry
The intentional use of elevated language to describe the trivial or commonplace, or a sudden transition from a significant thought to a trivial one in order to achieve a humorous or satiric effect.
anaphora
Literature; Poetry
the repetition of an opening word or phrase in throughout a number of lines.
anastrophe
Literature; Poetry
A type of hyperbaton involving the inversion of the natural or usual syntactical order of a pair of words for rhetorical or poetic effect.
aagoge
Literature; Poetry
The spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense.
anagogy
Literature; Poetry
The spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense.
anapest
Literature; Poetry
a metrical foot composed of two weaker syllables followed by a stronger, (or 'stressed') syllable.
analogy
Literature; Poetry
An agreement or similarity in some particulars between things otherwise different; sleep and death, for example, are analogous in that they both share a lack of animation and a recumbent posture.
