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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Prolepsis

Literature; Poetry

The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation of the action of the verb.

Portmanteau word

Literature; Poetry

An artificial word made up of parts of others, so called because of two meanings combined in one word.

Polysyndeton

Literature; Poetry

The repetition of a number of conjunctions in close succession, as in, "We have men and arms and planes and tanks."

Polysyllable

Literature; Poetry

A word consisting of several syllables. It is most often applied to words of more than three syllables.

Polyptoton

Literature; Poetry

A figure of speech in which a word is repeated in a different form of the same root or stem, as Shakespeare's "Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright" or repeated with its word class ...