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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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Rhetoric
Literature; Poetry
The art of speaking or writing effectively; skill in the eloquent use of language.
Rhetorical question
Literature; Poetry
A question solely for effect, with no answer expected. By the implication that the answer is obvious, it is a means of achieving an emphasis stronger than a direct statement.
Responsion
Literature; Poetry
When stanzas are of the same meter, the same rhyme scheme and same number of lines they are 'in responsion'
Rhapsody
Literature; Poetry
The recitation of a short epic poem or a longer epic abridged for recitation.
Romanticism
Literature; Poetry
An 18th century movement revolting against the conventional strictness of neo-classicism and placing artistic emphasis on imagination and the emotions.
Rhythm
Literature; Poetry
An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem as determined by the arses and theses of the metrical feet, i.e., the rise and fall of ...
Ricochet words
Literature; Poetry
Hyphenated words, usually formed by reduplicating a word with a change in the radical vowel or the initial consonant sound, such as pitter- patter, chit-chat, riff-raff, wishy-washy, hob-nob, ...
