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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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rhyme royal
Literature; Poetry
A stanza of seven lines of heroic or five-foot iambic verse, rhyming ababbcc. It probably received its name from its use by King James I of Scotland, who was both king and a poet. It was previously ...
rhyme scheme
Literature; Poetry
The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as the ababbcc of the ...
rhyme
Literature; Poetry
In the specific sense, a type of echoing which utilizes a correspondence of sound in the final accented vowels and all that follows of two or more words, but the preceding consonant sounds must ...
rhopalic
Literature; Poetry
Having each succeeding unit in a poetic structure longer than the preceding one. Applied to a line, it means that each successive word is a syllable longer that its predecessor. Applied to a stanza, ...
rhetoric
Literature; Poetry
The art of speaking or writing effectively; skill in the eloquent use of language.
rhetorical question
Literature; Poetry
A question solely for effect, with no answer expected. By the implication that the answer is obvious, it is a means of achieving an emphasis stronger than a direct statement.
responsion
Literature; Poetry
when stanzas are of the same meter, the same rhyme scheme and same number of lines they are 'in responsion'
