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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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Rhyme royal
Literature; Poetry
A stanza of seven lines of heroic or five-foot iambic verse, rhyming ababbcc. It probably received its name from its use by King James I of Scotland, who was both king and a poet. It was previously ...
Picaresque
Literature; Poetry
The term applied to literature dealing sympathetically with the adventures of clever and amusing rogues.
Periphrasis
Literature; Poetry
The substitution of an elaborate phrase in place of a simple word or expression, as "fragrant beverage drawn from China's herb" for tea.
Persona
Literature; Poetry
The speaker or voice of a literary work, i.e., who is doing the talking. Thus persona is the "I" of a narrative or the implied speaker of a lyric poem.
Palinode
Literature; Poetry
A poem in which the poet contradicts or retracts something in an earlier poem.
Personification
Literature; Poetry
A type of metaphor in which distinctive human characteristics, e.g., honesty, emotion, volition, etc., are attributed to an animal, object or idea.
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