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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pun

Literature; Poetry

A word play suggesting, with humorous intent, the different meanings of one word or the use of two or more words similar in sound but different in meaning.

prothalamium

Literature; Poetry

A song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom before their wedding.

prosopopeia

Literature; Poetry

A figure of speech in which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking.

prothalamion

Literature; Poetry

A song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom before their wedding.

The general term for the structure of poetry; the science of versification according to syllabic quantity, accent, etc.; the systematic study of poetic meter. All types of metrical feet, patterns of ...

prose poem

Literature; Poetry

A genre in the poetic spectrum between free verse and prose. It is distinguished by the poetic characteristics of rhythmic, aural, and syntactic repetition, compression of thought, sustained ...

prose

Literature; Poetry

Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing, distinguished from the language of poetry primarily in that the line is not treated as a formal unit and it has no repetitive pattern of rhythm or ...