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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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Helicon
Literature; Poetry
A part of the Parnassus, a mountain range in Greece, which was the home of the Muses. The name is used as an allusion to poetic inspiration.
Hamartia
Literature; Poetry
In literature, the tragic hero's error of judgement or inherent defect of character, usually less literally translated as a "fatal flaw." This, combined with essential elements of chance and other ...
Half rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A near rhyme; also, an apocopated rhyme in which the rhyme occurs only on the first syllable of the rhyming word, as in blue and truly or sum and trumpet.
Haiku
Literature; Poetry
A Japanese form of poetry, also known as hokku. It consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. The elusive flavour of the form, however, lies more in its touch and tone than ...
Heptameter
Literature; Poetry
A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet. It is also called a septenarius, especially in Latin prosody.
Hendiadys
Literature; Poetry
The use of a pair of nouns joined by and where one has the effect of a modifier.
Hemistich
Literature; Poetry
The approximate half of a line of poetic verse, usually divided by a caesura. In dramatic poetry it is used whenever characters exchange short bursts of dialogue rapidly, heightening the effect of ...
