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  2. Template:Colloquialism - Wikipedia

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    This inline template should be placed after a word or phrase which needs replacing with literal text. It is preferable to resolve the problem yourself if possible, but if you cannot determine the literal interpretation, this tag should be used. See the template data for parameters. Template data

  3. Zajal - Wikipedia

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    Zajal poetry is in the colloquial Arabic of al-Andalus rather than Standard Arabic. Zajal differs from classical Arabic poetry in that the former has strophic form and the latter is monorhymed. [2] Zajal's stress-syllable versification, or qualitative meter, also differs significantly from the quantitative meter of classical Arabic poetry. [2]

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Landay: a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables. Mukhammas; Pantoum: a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets comprising a series of quatrains, with the 2nd and 4th lines of each quatrain repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next. The 2nd and 4th lines of the final stanza repeat the 1st and 3rd ...

  5. Colloquialism - Wikipedia

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    Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom normally employed in conversation and other informal contexts . [ 1 ]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Template:Colloquial - Wikipedia

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    This banner cleanup template is used to tag articles or sections of articles which contain colloquial or non-literal language. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status 1 1 scope What this template applies to. For instance, entering "section" will make the template read "This section..." Default article ...

  8. Literary and colloquial readings - Wikipedia

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    For example, 人民 must be read using the literary reading, /zəɲmiɲ/, and 人命 must be read using the colloquial reading, /ɲiɲmiɲ/. Some differences in reading for the same characters have different meanings, such as 巴結 , using the colloquial reading /pʊtɕɪʔ/ means 'make great effort', and using the literary reading /pɑtɕɪʔ ...

  9. Stanza - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, a stanza (/ ˈ s t æ n z ə /; from Italian stanza, Italian:; lit. ' room ') is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. [1] Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are many different forms of stanzas.