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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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Catalogue verse
Literature; Poetry
A poem comprised of a list of persons, places, things, or abstract ideas which share a common denominator. An ancient form, it was originally a type of didactic poetry.
Canto
Literature; Poetry
A major division of a long or extended poem. A canto of a poem corresponds to a chapter of a novel.
Aphaeresis
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which a letter or syllable is omitted at the beginning of a word, as 'twas for it was.
Canzone
Literature; Poetry
A mediaeval Italian or Provençal lyric poem of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding short stanza or envoi.
Climax
Literature; Poetry
Rhetorically, a series of words, phrases, or sentences arranged in a continuously ascending order of intensity. If the ascending order is not maintained, an anticlimax or bathos results.
Closed couplet
Literature; Poetry
A couplet in which the sense and syntax is self- contained within its two lines, as opposed to an open couplet.
Classicism
Literature; Poetry
The adherence to traditional standards that are universally valid and enduring.
