Poetry

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, ...