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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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Mimesis
Literature; Poetry
Literally, imitation or realistic representation -- but its poetic significance is more specific: it refers to the combination of sound in phonetic symbolism and onomatopoeia (sound suggestion) with ...
Miltonic
Literature; Poetry
Pertaining to the poetry or style of the poet, John Milton, one of the most respected figures in English literature.
Heteronym
Literature; Poetry
One of a group of words with identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations.
Hexameter
Literature; Poetry
A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet; the term, however, is usually used for dactylic hexameter, consisting of dactyls and spondees, the metre in which the Greek and Latin epics were ...
Heterometric composition
Literature; Poetry
A poem written in metre but with lines of differing length, e.g. one line of tetrameter, one of pentameter, one of dimeter etc.
Foot
Literature; Poetry
A unit of rhythm or meter, the division in verse of a group of syllables, one of which is long or accented. For example, the line, "The boy | stood on | the burn | ing deck," has four ...
