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  2. Poetry from Daily Life: The way Laura Purdie Salas does math ...

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    Poetry is Laura's favorite thing to write, and nature and everyday observations are her favorite topics. Laura's a former 8th-grade teacher with a monstrous sweet tooth. She likes to eat cupcakes ...

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Epic (or epos): an extended narrative poem, typically expressing heroic themes. Mock-epic: a poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically. Epyllion: a brief narrative work written in dactylic hexameter, commonly dealing with mythological themes and characterized by vivid description and allusion. Romance

  4. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Speculative poetry, also known as fantastic poetry (of which weird or macabre poetry is a major sub-classification), is a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are "beyond reality", whether via extrapolation as in science fiction or via weird and horrific themes as in horror fiction. Such poetry appears regularly in modern ...

  5. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [ 2 ]

  6. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    For example, Math Circles are after-school enrichment programs where students engage with mathematics through lectures and activities; there are also some teachers who encourage student engagement by teaching mathematics in kinesthetic learning. In a general Math Circle lesson, students use pattern finding, observation, and exploration to make ...

  7. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    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 punctuation increases the ...

  8. Instapoetry - Wikipedia

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    Instapoetry is a style of written poetry that emerged after the advent of social media, especially on Instagram.The term has been used to describe poems written specifically for being shared online, most commonly on Instagram, but also other platforms including Twitter, Tumblr, and TikTok.

  9. Doggerel - Wikipedia

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    Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. Alternatively, it can mean verse which has a monotonous rhythm, easy rhyme, and cheap or trivial meaning. The word is derived from the Middle English dogerel, probably a derivative of dog. [1]