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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. Italic type - Wikipedia

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    Historically, italics were a distinct style of type used entirely separately from roman type, but they have come to be used in conjunction—most fonts now come with a roman type and an oblique version (generally called "italic" though often not true italics). In this usage, italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed text, to ...

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Use italics for the scientific names of plants, animals, and all other organisms except viruses at the genus level and below (italicize Panthera leo and Retroviridae, but not Felidae). The hybrid sign is not italicized ( Rosa × damascena ), nor is the "connecting term" required in three-part botanical names ( Rosa gallica subsp. officinalis ).

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Stichic: a poem composed of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken into stanzas. Syllabic: a poem whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses. Tanka: a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.

  6. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Although emphasis is useful in speech, and so has a place in informal or journalistic writing, in academic traditions it is often suggested that italics are only used where there is a danger of misunderstanding the meaning of the sentence, and even in that case that rewriting the sentence is preferable; in formal writing the reader is expected ...

  7. 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.

  8. Portal:Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  9. 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 ...