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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Italics may also be used where <dfn> tags or {} templates mark a term's first use, definition, introduction, or distinguished meaning on the page. Note that <dfn> tags and {{ dfn }} templates do not apply text formatting, so the italicization (or quoting) must be added if intended.

  3. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Found poem: a prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines. Haiku: a type of short poem, originally from Japan, consisting of three lines in a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern. [2] English-language haiku: an unrhymed tercet poem in the haiku style. Lekythion: a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a ...

  5. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Example of black letter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts. In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. [1] It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    For titles of books, articles, poems, and so forth, use italics or quotation marks following the guidance for titles. Italics can also be added to mark up non-English terms (with the {} template), for an organism's scientific name, and to indicate a words-as-words usage.

  7. Italic type - Wikipedia

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    True italic styles are traditionally somewhat narrower than roman fonts. Here is an example of normal and true italics text: Example text set in both roman and italic type. In oblique text, the same type is used as in normal type, but slanted to the right: The same example text set in oblique type

  8. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    Quotation marks, rather than italics, are generally used for the titles of shorter works. Whether these are single or double depends on the context; however, many styles, especially for poetry, prefer the use of single quotation marks. Short fiction, poetry, etc.: Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel"

  9. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Example: The plumbing took a maze of turns where even water got lost. Symbolism means to imbue objects with a certain meaning that is different from their original meaning or function. It is a representative of other aspects, concepts or traits than those visible in literal translation.