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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Paronym

Literature; Poetry

A word derived from or related to another word; also, the form in one language for a word in another, as in the English canal for the Latin canalis.

Parody

Literature; Poetry

A ludicrous imitation, usually for comic effect but sometimes for ridicule, of the style and content of another work. The humour depends upon the reader's familiarity with the original.

Paronomasia

Literature; Poetry

A play on words in which the same word is used in different senses or words similar in sound are used in opposition to each other for a rhetorical contrast; a pun. For an example, see Well-Versed.

Of or related to poetry, after Parnassus, a mountain in Greece with two summits; one summit was consecrated to Bacchus, the other to Apollo and the Muses, thus Parnassus was regarded as the seat of ...

Parallelism

Literature; Poetry

The repetition of syntactical similarities in passages closely connected for rhetorical effect. The repetitive structure lends wit or emphasis to the meanings of the separate clauses, thus being ...

Paradox

Literature; Poetry

A statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps, or indeed, true when viewed from another angle.