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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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diamante
Literature; Poetry
A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. The first line begins with a noun and second line contains two adjectives that describes it. The third line contains three words ...
diaeresis
Literature; Poetry
The pronunciation of two adjacent vowels as separate sounds rather than as a dipthong, as in coordinate; also, the mark indicating the separate pronunciation, as in naïve.
denotation
Literature; Poetry
The literal dictionary meaning(s) of a word as distinct from an associated idea or connotation.
Italian sonnet
Literature; Poetry
The Italian sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet, is divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes. See sonnet.
eye rhyme
Literature; Poetry
In poetry, An imperfect rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. An example is the pair slaughter and laughter. See rhyme.
enjambment
Literature; Poetry
In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line. The transition between the first two lines of Wordsworth’s poem "My ...
