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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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rictameter
Literature; Poetry
This is a form of verse called rictameter. The 1st and last lines are the same words. Line 1= 2 syllables, line 2=4, line 3=6, line 4= 8, line 5= 10, line 6=8, line 7=6, line 8=4 and line 9 =2. So ...
rhyming slang
Literature; Poetry
A slang popular in Great Britain in the early part of the 20th century, in which a word was replaced by a word or phrase that rhymed with it, as loaf of bread for head. When the rhyme was a compound ...
romanticism
Literature; Poetry
An 18th century movement revolting against the conventional strictness of neo-classicism and placing artistic emphasis on imagination and the emotions.
rhythm
Literature; Poetry
An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem as determined by the arses and theses of the metrical feet, i.e., the rise and fall of ...
ricochet words
Literature; Poetry
Hyphenated words, usually formed by reduplicating a word with a change in the radical vowel or the initial consonant sound, such as pitter- patter, chit-chat, riff-raff, wishy-washy, hob-nob, ...
