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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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Anacrusis
Literature; Poetry
When one or more unstressed syllables are added at the beginning of a line.
Adynaton
Literature; Poetry
A type of hyperbole in which the exaggeration is magnified so greatly that it refers to an impossibility, as "I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles."
Accentual metre
Literature; Poetry
A rhythmic pattern based on a recurring number of accents or stresses in each line of a poem or section of a poem.
Acephalexis
Literature; Poetry
Initial truncation (the dropping of the first, unstressed syllable at the beginning of a line of iambic or anapestic verse).
Acrostic poem
Literature; Poetry
A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a name (downwards).
Alcaic verse
Literature; Poetry
A Greek lyrical meter, said to be invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from about 600 B.C. Written in tetrameter, the greater Alcaic consists of a spondee or iamb followed by an iamb plus a long ...
Allegory
Literature; Poetry
A figurative illustration of truths or generalisations about human conduct or experience in a narrative or description by the use of symbolic fictional figures and actions which resemble the ...
