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  2. Couplet - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil language has a rich and refined grammar for couplet poetry, and distichs in Tamil poetry follow the venpa metre. [8] One of the most notable examples of Tamil couplet poetry is the ancient Tamil moral text of the Tirukkural , which contains a total of 1330 couplets written in the kural venpa metre from which the title of the work was ...

  3. Venpa - Wikipedia

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    Venpa or Venba (வெண்பா in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. [1] Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between two and twelve lines.

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    A long poem that narrates the victories and adventures of a hero. Such a poem is often identifiable by its lofty or elegant diction. [11] epic simile epic theater epigraph 1. An inscription on a statue, stone, or building. 2. The legend on a coin. 3. A quotation on the title page of a book. 4. A motto heading a new section or paragraph. [2]

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Titles in quotation marks that include (or in unusual cases consist of) something that requires italicization for some other reason than being a title, e.g. a genus and species name, or a non-English phrase, or the name of a larger work being referred to, also use the needed italicization, inside the quotation marks: "Ferromagnetic Material in ...

  6. Alfiyya of Ibn Malik - Wikipedia

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    The long title is al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya (The millennium conclusion). Alfiyyah Ibn Malik was widely accepted by students of Arabic grammar, and they were keen to memorize and explain it more than other grammatical texts, due to its organization, ease of use, and conciseness of grammatical and morphological rules, with a precise arrangement of ...

  7. Kural (poetic form) - Wikipedia

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    Veṇpā is a closely related family of very strict [6] Tamil verse forms. They differ chiefly in the number of standard lines that occur before the final short line. In kuṟaḷ-veṇpā (or simply "kural") a single 4-foot ("standard") line is followed by a final 3-foot ("short") line, resulting in a 7-foot couplet. [7]

  8. 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.

  9. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.