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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Galliambus

Literature; Poetry

In classic poetry, a lyric metre consisting of four iambic dipodies, the last of which is catalectic, dropping the final accent, or a line of four lesser Ionic feet catalectic, varied by anaclasis.

Genre

Literature; Poetry

A category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterised by a particular form, style or content. Poetry, for example, is a literary genre.

Echo

Literature; Poetry

The repetition of particular sounds, syllables, words or lines in poetry.

Dramatic poem

Literature; Poetry

A composition in verse portraying a storey of life or character, usually involving conflict and emotions, in a plot evolving through action and dialogue.

A literary work which consists of a revealing one-way conversation by a character or persona, usually directed to a second person or to an imaginary audience. It typically involves a critical moment ...

Emphasis

Literature; Poetry

A deliberate stress of articulation on a word or phrase so as to give an impression of particular significance to it by the more marked pronunciation. In writing, emphasis is indicated by the use of ...

Empathy

Literature; Poetry

The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of another, thus imagining the same sensation as that of those ...