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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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Synaesthesia
Literature; Poetry
The perception or description of one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe a different sense, like a "sweet voice" or a "velvety smile." It can be very effective for creating ...
Syncopation
Literature; Poetry
In the quantitive verse of classical poetry, the suppression of one syllable in a metrical pattern, with its time value either replaced by a pause (like a musician's "rest") or by the additional ...
Synalepha
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which a vowel at the end of one word is coalesced with one beginning the next word, as "th' embattled plain."
Syneresis
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which two contiguous vowels within a word which are normally pronounced as two syllables, as in seest, are pronounced as one syllable instead.
Synaeresis
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which two contiguous vowels within a word which are normally pronounced as two syllables, as in seest, are pronounced as one syllable instead.
Syllable
Literature; Poetry
A word or part of a word representing a sound produced as a unit by a single impulse of the voice, consisting of either a vowel sound alone as in oh or a vowel with attendant consonants, as in ...
Syllepsis
Literature; Poetry
A type of zeugma in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, agrees grammatically with two or more other words, but semantically with only one, thereby effecting a shift in sense with the ...
