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  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.

  3. Epic poetry - Wikipedia

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    In his work Poetics, Aristotle defines an epic as one of the forms of poetry, contrasted with lyric poetry and drama (in the form of tragedy and comedy). [12] Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter and is narrative in form.

  4. Flyting - Wikipedia

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    Flyting can also be found in Arabic poetry in a popular form called naqā’iḍ, as well as the competitive verses of Japanese Haikai. Echoes of the genre continue into modern poetry. Hugh MacDiarmid's poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, for example, has many passages of flyting in which the poet's opponent is, in effect, the rest of humanity.

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese poetry, a tanka where the upper part is composed by one poet and the lower part by another. [56] techne telestich A poem or other form of writing in which the last letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. [57] tenor tercet terza rima tetrameter tetrastich ...

  6. Epigraph (literature) - Wikipedia

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    An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.

  7. Fermionic condensate - Wikipedia

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    Fermionic condensates are attained at lower temperatures than Bose–Einstein condensates. Fermionic condensates are a type of superfluid.As the name suggests, a superfluid possesses fluid properties similar to those possessed by ordinary liquids and gases, such as the lack of a definite shape and the ability to flow in response to applied forces.

  8. Tarantula (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Tarantula is an experimental prose poetry [1] collection by Bob Dylan, written in 1964 and 1965. [2] It was published in 1971. [3] [4] It employs stream of consciousness writing, somewhat in the style of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Its style is also reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud's in A Season in Hell.

  9. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...