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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Idealism

Literature; Poetry

The artistic theory or practise that affirms the preeminent values of ideas and imagination, as compared with the faithful portrayal of nature in realism.

Ictus

Literature; Poetry

The recurring stress or accent in a rhythmic or metrical series of sounds; also, the mark indicating the syllable on which such stress or accent occurs.

Iamb

Literature; Poetry

The most common metrical foot in English, German and Russian verse, and many other languages as well; it consists of two syllables, a short or unaccented syllable followed by a long or accented ...

Internal rhyme

Literature; Poetry

Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line. The rhyme may be with words within the line but not at the line end, or with a word at the line end and a word within the line.

Interior monologue

Literature; Poetry

A narrative technique in which action and external events are conveyed indirectly through a fictional character's mental soliloquy of thoughts and associations.

In medias res

Literature; Poetry

The literary device of beginning a narrative, such as an epic poem, at a crucial point in the middle of a series of events. The intent is to create an immediate interest from which the author can ...

Incremental repetition

Literature; Poetry

The repetition in each stanza--of a ballad, for example--of part of the preceding stanza, usually with a slight change in wording for effect. Initial Rhyme