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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Poetry

A poem in a fixed form, consisting of a varying number of 4-line stanzas with lines rhyming alternately; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated to form the first and third lines of ...

Panegyric

Literature; Poetry

A speech or poem of elaborate praise for some distinguished person, object or event, similar to, but more formal than, an encomium.

Palinody

Literature; Poetry

A poem in which the poet contradicts or retracts something in an earlier poem.

Oxymoron

Literature; Poetry

The conjunction of words which, at first view, seem to be contradictory or incongruous, but whose surprising juxtaposition expresses a truth or dramatic effect, such as, cool fire, deafening silence, ...

Odeon

Literature; Poetry

A small roofed theatre in ancient antiquity devoted to the presentation of musical and poetic works to the public in competition for prizes.

Line

Literature; Poetry

A unit in the structure of a poem consisting of one or more metrical feet arranged as a rhythmical entity.

Limerick

Literature; Poetry

A light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one, two and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba. The ...