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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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Tanka
Literature; Poetry
The classic form of Japanese poetry with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables to produce a concentrated essence of a single event, image or mood.
Symbolism
Literature; Poetry
A late 19th century movement reacting against realism. Influenced by the connexions between music and poetry, it sought to achieve the effects of images and metaphors to symbolise the basic idea or ...
Stichomythy
Literature; Poetry
A dramatic dialogue of lively repartee in alternate verse lines. (When half-lines instead of whole lines are used for this technique, it is called hemistichomythia)
Symploce
Literature; Poetry
The repetition of a word or expression at the beginnings plus the repetition of a word or expression at the ends of successive phrases, i. e, a combination of both anaphora and epistrophe.
Synesthetic metaphor
Literature; Poetry
A metaphor that suggests a similarity between experiences in different senses, as "a gourmet of country music."
Synonym
Literature; Poetry
One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.
Syntax
Literature; Poetry
The way in which linguistic elements (words and phrases) are arranged to form grammatical structure.
