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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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feminine rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A rhyme occurring on an unaccented final syllable, as in dining and shining or motion and ocean. Feminine rhymes are double or disyllabic rhymes and are common in the heroic couplet.
feminine ending
Literature; Poetry
An extra unaccented syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line of poetry, often used in blank verse.
fabliau
Literature; Poetry
A ribald and often cynical tale in verse, especially popular in the Middle Ages.
extended metaphor
Literature; Poetry
A metaphor which is drawn-out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem, usually by using multiple comparisons between the unlike objects or ideas.
fable
Literature; Poetry
A poetic story that illustrates a moral or teaches a lesson, usually in which animals or inanimate objects are represented as characters.
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