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  2. Univocalic - Wikipedia

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    One of the best-known univocalic poems was written by C.C. Bombaugh in 1890 using "O". Bombaugh's work is still in print. An example couplet: No cool monsoons blow soft on Oxford dons, Orthodox, jog-trot, book-worm Solomons. The Austrian poet Ernst Jandl composed his univocalic poem "ottos mops" ("Otto's Pug") from German words with only the ...

  3. Eunoia (book) - Wikipedia

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    Eunoia (2001) is an anthology of univocalics by Canadian poet Christian Bök.Each chapter is written using words limited to consonants and a single vowel, producing sentences like: "Hassan can, at a handclap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal". [1]

  4. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Lipogram: a writing in which certain letter is missing Univocalic: a type of poetry that uses only one vowel; Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction; Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is the repetition of syllables, typically found at the end of a verse line. Assonance (aka vowel rhyme): the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. [1] Broken rhyme: a type of enjambment producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line

  6. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse. Correlative verse: matching items in two sequences. Diacope: repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words. Elision: omission of one or more letters in speech, making it colloquial. Enallage: wording ignoring grammatical rules or ...

  7. Assonance - Wikipedia

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    Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar phonemes in words or syllables that occur close together, either in terms of their vowel phonemes (e.g., lean green meat) or their consonant phonemes (e.g., Kip keeps capes ). [1]

  8. Monogram (artwork) - Wikipedia

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    This reading has also been linked with a biographical anecdote involving a pet goat that Rauschenberg had as a child. He recounted coming home from school one day to find that his father had slaughtered the goat. [9] Art critic Catherine Craft said of the work: "Not surprisingly, Monogram shocked contemporary viewers. Still, there is also a ...

  9. A (cuneiform) - Wikipedia

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    The Amarna letter usage of cuneiform a has the same high usage for Akkadian language ana (a-na) as does the Epic of Gilgamesh. Two other high usages for a and typical to the Amarna letters is the negative: lā , Akkadian language, "lā", used before the spelling of the verb , which follows.