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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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Minstrelsy
Literature; Poetry
The art and occupation of minstrels; also, a collection of minstrel songs or a group of musicians or minstrels.
Minnesingers
Literature; Poetry
Lyric poets of Germany in the 12th to 14th centuries, all men of noble birth who received royal patronage and who wrote mainly of courtly love. They were succeeded by the Meistersingers.
Octosyllable
Literature; Poetry
A metrical line of eight syllables, such as iambic, tetrameter, or a poem composed of eight-syllable lines.
Mock-heroic
Literature; Poetry
A satiric literary form that treats a trivial or commonplace subject with the elevated language and heroic style of the classical epic.
Ode
Literature; Poetry
A type of lyric or melic verse, usually irregular rather than uniform, generally of considerable length, and sometimes continuous, sometimes divided in accordance with transitions of thought and mood ...
Occasional poem
Literature; Poetry
A poem written for a particular occasion, such as a dedication, birthday, or victory. The encomium, elegy, prothalamium, and epithalamium are examples of occasional poems.
Hyperbole
Literature; Poetry
A bold, deliberate overstatement, e.g., "I'd give my right arm for a piece of pizza." Not intended to be taken literally, it is used as a means of emphasising the truth of a statement.
