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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Chain rhyme

Literature; Poetry

Also called interlocking rhyme, a rhyme scheme in which a rhyme in a line of one stanza is used as a link to a rhyme in the next stanza, as in the aba bcb cdc, etc. of terza rima or the aaab cccb

Cataphora

Literature; Poetry

The use of a grammatical substitute (like a pronoun) which has the same reference as the next word or phrase.

Cento

Literature; Poetry

Poetry made up of lines borrowed from a combination of established authors, usually resulting in a change in meaning and a humorous effect.

Catalexis

Literature; Poetry

Metrically incomplete; the dropping of one or two unaccented syllables from the end of a line, thus ending with an incomplete foot.

Chiasmus

Literature; Poetry

An inverted parallelism; the reversal of the order of corresponding words or phrases (with or without exact repetition) in successive clauses, which are usually parallel in syntax.

Choriamb

Literature; Poetry

In ancient poetry, a metrical foot consisting of four syllables, the first two forming a trochee and the second two an iambus.

Chain verse

Literature; Poetry

Similar to chain rhyme, but links words, phrases, or lines (instead of rhyme) by repeating them in succeeding stanzas, as in the pantoum, but there are many variations.