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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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catalog verse
Literature; Poetry
A poem comprised of a list of persons, places, things, or abstract ideas which share a common denominator. An ancient form, it was originally a type of didactic poetry.
catalectic
Literature; Poetry
Metrically incomplete; the dropping of one or two unaccented syllables from the end of a line, thus ending with an incomplete foot.
canto
Literature; Poetry
A major division of a long or extended poem. A canto of a poem corresponds to a chapter of a novel.
canzone
Literature; Poetry
A medieval Italian or Provençal lyric poem of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding short stanza or envoi.
carpe diem
Literature; Poetry
Latin for "seize the day," a common motif in lyric verse throughout the history of poetry, with the emphasis on making the most of current pleasures because life is short and time is flying.
catachresis
Literature; Poetry
Misuse or abuse of words; the use of the wrong word for the context, as atone for repent, ingenuous for ingenious, or a forced trope in which a word is used too far removed from its true meaning, as ...
