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  2. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-415-34017-9. J. A. Cuddon. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-14-051363-9. Dana Gioia. The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader. Longman, 2005. ISBN 0-321-33194-X. Sharon Hamilton.

  4. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Punctuations as poetic devices. Punctuation is an object of interpretation in poetry; it is semantic. [4] In poetry, they act as non-verbal tools of poetic expression. A form of artistic choice, the poet's choice of punctuation is central to our understanding of poetic meaning because of its ability to influence prosody. The unorthodox use of ...

  5. Category:Literary terminology - Wikipedia

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    Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. ... Poetic forms (6 C, 142 P ...

  6. Poetics - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo Bruni's translation of Aristotle's Poetics. Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, [1] though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly.

  7. Metrical foot - Wikipedia

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    The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, and is usually two, three, or four syllables in length.

  8. Category:Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Pages in category "Poetic devices" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.

  9. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope , these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1 ]