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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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sonnet
Literature; Poetry
A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of five-foot iambic verse. In the English or Shakespearean sonnet, the lines are grouped in three quatrains (with six alternating rhymes) followed by a ...
soliloquy
Literature; Poetry
A talking to oneself; the discourse of a person speaking to himself, whether alone or in the presence of others. It gives the illusion of being unspoken reflections.
society verse
Literature; Poetry
A short lyrical poem written in an urbane manner or crisp, animated and typically ironic light verse dealing with contemporaneous topics.
solecism
Literature; Poetry
An impropriety of speech; a violation of the established rules of syntax.
simile
Literature; Poetry
A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two essentially unlike things, usually using like, as or than.
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