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 figure of speech involving the substitution of one noun for another of which it is an attribute or which is closely associated with it, e.g., "the kettle boils" or "he drank the cup." Metonymy is ...

Metre

Literature; Poetry

A measure of rhythmic quantity, the organised succession of groups of syllables at basically regular intervals in a line of poetry, according to definite metrical patterns. In classic Greek and Latin ...

Masculine rhyme

Literature; Poetry

A rhyme occurring in words of one syllable or in an accented final syllable, such as light and sight or arise and surprise.

Measure

Literature; Poetry

Poetic rhythm or cadence as determined by the syllables in a line of poetry with respect to quantity and accent; also, meter; also, a metrical foot.

Meistersingers

Literature; Poetry

Members of various German trade guilds formed in the 15th and 16th centuries by merchants and craftsmen for the cultivation of poetry and music, succeeding the Minnesingers.

Meiosis

Literature; Poetry

An understatement; the presentation of a thing with under emphasis in order to achieve a greater effect.

Minstrel

Literature; Poetry

In the Middle Ages, the general term for a performer who subsisted by reciting verse and singing, usually accompanied by a harp. Some minstrels were travelling entertainers; others were permanently ...