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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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closet drama
Literature; Poetry
A literary work written in the form of a drama, but intended by the author only for reading, not for performance in the theater.
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clerihew
Literature; Poetry
A pseudo biographical poem, four lines long. A clerihew follows an aabb rhyming pattern, so the first two and last two lines rhyme. Clerihews usually are about the individual mentioned in the initial ...
climax
Literature; Poetry
Rhetorically, a series of words, phrases, or sentences arranged in a continuously ascending order of intensity. If the ascending order is not maintained, an anticlimax or bathos results.
closed couplet
Literature; Poetry
A couplet in which the sense and syntax is self- contained within its two lines, as opposed to an open couplet.
classicism
Literature; Poetry
The adherence to traditional standards that are universally valid and enduring.
clarity pyramid
Literature; Poetry
A Clarity Pyramid is a poem consisting of two triplets and a single line (7 lines in all). Usually, this poem is center aligned when displayed. The first triplet has 1, 2, and 3 syllables. The title ...
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