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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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Antiphrasis
Literature; Poetry
The ironic or humorous use of words in a sense not in accord with their literal meaning, as in "a giant of three feet four inches."
Antispast
Literature; Poetry
A metrical foot consisting of two long syllables between two short syllables.
Anthology
Literature; Poetry
A collection of selected literary, artistic, or musical works or parts of works.
Troubadour
Literature; Poetry
One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, who flourished from the 11th through the 13th centuries in Southern France and neighbouring areas of Italy and Spain, and who ...
Trochaic
Literature; Poetry
A metrical foot with a long or accented syllable followed by a short or unaccented syllable, as in only or total, or the opening line of Poe's "The Raven," Once up | on a | midnight | ...
Triolet
Literature; Poetry
A poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth, with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB.
Triple rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A rhyme in which three final syllables of words have the same sound, as in glorious and victorious.
