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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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parallelism
Literature; Poetry
The repetition of syntactical similarities in passages closely connected for rhetorical effect. The repetitive structure lends wit or emphasis to the meanings of the separate clauses, thus being ...
paradox
Literature; Poetry
A statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps, or indeed, true when viewed from another angle.
paradelle
Literature; Poetry
The paradelle is a 4 stanza poem with a very strict line and word format. In the first three stanzas you will repeat lines 1 and 3 and then use all of the words in line 5 and 6. Line 1: A new ...
pantoum
Literature; Poetry
A poem in a fixed form, consisting of a varying number of 4-line stanzas with lines rhyming alternately; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated to form the first and third lines of ...
panegyric
Literature; Poetry
A speech or poem of elaborate praise for some distinguished person, object or event, similar to, but more formal than, an encomium.
palinode
Literature; Poetry
A poem in which the poet contradicts or retracts something in an earlier poem.
palinody
Literature; Poetry
A poem in which the poet contradicts or retracts something in an earlier poem.
