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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Canzone: a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhyme. Epithalamium; Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Ode: a formal lyric poem that addresses, and typically celebrates, a person, place, thing, or idea. Horatian Ode

  4. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    RepetitionRepetition often uses word associations to express ideas and emotions indirectly, emphasizing a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion. Rhyme–Rhyme uses repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality.

  5. Waka (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Up to and during the compilation of the Man'yōshū in the eighth century, the word waka was a general term for poetry composed in Japanese, and included several genres such as tanka (短歌, "short poem"), chōka (長歌, "long poem"), bussokusekika (仏足石歌, "Buddha footprint poem") and sedōka (旋頭歌, "repeating-the-first-part poem").

  6. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]

  7. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    "Lines on Joe Locke" was a short, two stanza poem written to make fun of a commanding officer during Poe's time at West Point. Poe was known for his funny verses on staff and faculty at the academy. Lieutenant Locke was either generally not well-liked, or Poe had a more personal vendetta with him.

  8. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.

  9. Hours of Idleness - Wikipedia

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    Hours of Idleness was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old. [1] It is a collection of mostly short poems , many in imitation of classic Roman poets. Background