Poetry

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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iamb

Literature; Poetry

The most common metrical foot in English, German and Russian verse, and many other languages as well; it consists of two syllables, a short or unaccented syllable followed by a long or accented ...

hysteron proteron

Literature; Poetry

Related to the hyperbaton, a figure of speech in which the natural or logical order of events is reversed.

hypercatalectic

Literature; Poetry

Having an additional syllable after the final complete foot in a line of verse. A verse marked by hypercatalexis is called hypermetrical.

hypermetrical

Literature; Poetry

A line which contains a redundant syllable or syllables at variance with the regular metrical pattern.

hyperbole

Literature; Poetry

A bold, deliberate overstatement, e.g., "I'd give my right arm for a piece of pizza." Not intended to be taken literally, it is used as a means of emphasizing the truth of a statement.

hypallage

Literature; Poetry

A type of hyperbaton involving an interchange of elements in a phrase or sentence so that a displaced word is in a grammatical relationship with another that it does not logically qualify.

An inversion of the normal grammatical word order; it may range from a single word moved from its usual place to a pair of words inverted or to even more extremes of syntactic displacement. Specific ...