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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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procephalic
Literature; Poetry
In ancient prosody, having an excess of one syllable in the first foot of a line of verse.
prolepsis
Literature; Poetry
The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation of the action of the verb.
portmanteau word
Literature; Poetry
An artificial word made up of parts of others, so called because of two meanings combined in one word.
polysyndeton
Literature; Poetry
The repetition of a number of conjunctions in close succession, as in, "We have men and arms and planes and tanks."
polysyllable
Literature; Poetry
A word consisting of several syllables. It is most often applied to words of more than three syllables.
polyptoton
Literature; Poetry
A figure of speech in which a word is repeated in a different form of the same root or stem, as Shakespeare's "Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright" or repeated with its word class ...
