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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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Burlesque
Literature; Poetry
A work which is intended to ridicule by the use of grotesque exaggeration or by the treatment of a trifling subject with the gravity due a matter of great importance.
Chanson de geste
Literature; Poetry
Literally, a song of heroic deeds, it refers to a class of Old French epic poems of the Middle Ages.
Chant royal
Literature; Poetry
An elaborate form of ballade in old French poetry, consisting of five stanzas of eleven lines, an envoi of eight lines, and five rhymes. The rhyme scheme is usually ababccddede.
Chapbook
Literature; Poetry
A small book or pamphlet containing ballads, poems, popular tales or tracts, etc.
Cacophony
Literature; Poetry
Discordant sounds in the jarring juxtaposition of harsh letters or syllables, sometimes inadvertent, but often deliberately used in poetry for effect.
Bucolic
Literature; Poetry
Derived from the Greek word for herdsman, an ancient term for a poem dealing with a pastoral subject.
