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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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Fabliau
Literature; Poetry
A ribald and often cynical tale in verse, especially popular in the Middle Ages.
Conceit
Literature; Poetry
An elaborate metaphor, often strained or far-fetched, in which the subject is compared with a simpler analogue usually chosen from nature or a familiar context.
Closure
Literature; Poetry
The effect of finality, balance, and completeness which leaves the reader with a sense of fulfilled expectations. Though the term is sometimes employed to describe the effects of individual ...
Common measure
Literature; Poetry
A metre consisting chiefly of seven iambi feet arranged in rhymed pairs, thus a line with four accents followed by a line with three accents, usually in a four-line stanza. It is also called common ...
Consonance
Literature; Poetry
A pleasing combination of sounds; sounds in agreement with tone. Also, the close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds.
Controlling metaphor
Literature; Poetry
A symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else.
Concrete poetry
Literature; Poetry
Poetry which forms a structurally original visual shape, preferably abstract, through the use of reduced language, fragmented letters, symbols and other typographical variations to create an extreme ...
