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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Poetry

A fixed form consisting of six 6-line (usually unrhymed) stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order and as ...

pasquinade

Literature; Poetry

A lampoon or satirical writing.

pastiche

Literature; Poetry

An artistic effort that imitates or caricatures the work of another artist.

paronym

Literature; Poetry

A word derived from or related to another word; also, the form in one language for a word in another, as in the English canal for the Latin canalis.

parody

Literature; Poetry

A ludicrous imitation, usually for comic effect but sometimes for ridicule, of the style and content of another work. The humor depends upon the reader's familiarity with the original.

paronomasia

Literature; Poetry

A play on words in which the same word is used in different senses or words similar in sound are used in opposition to each other for a rhetorical contrast; a pun. For an example, see Well-Versed.

parnassian

Literature; Poetry

Of or related to poetry, after Parnassus, a mountain in Greece with two summits; one summit was consecrated to Bacchus, the other to Apollo and the Muses, thus Parnassus was regarded as the seat of ...