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2. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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   Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. Slam; Sound; Spoken-word; Verbless poetry: a poem ...

3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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   Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

4. 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 ...

5. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   5th edition: Includes 111,000 words, definitions, phrases, derivative words; illustrations cover 1200 entries. CD-ROM includes Intermediate iWriter, covering 11 types of compositions. Traditional Chinese edition (牛津進階英漢雙解詞典（第五版）): Published by Oxford University Press (China) Ltd.

6. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd Edition CD-ROM. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (abbreviated CALD) is a British dictionary of the English language. It was first published in 1995 under the title Cambridge International Dictionary of English by the Cambridge University Press. The dictionary has over 140,000 words, phrases ...

7. List of poetry collections - Wikipedia

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   The cover of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, published in 1917, a collection of twelve poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" referenced in the title. A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook.

8. Variations on the Word Love - Wikipedia

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   Variations on the Word Love is a poem about love by Margaret Atwood, who is regarded as one of Canada's greatest living writers. [1] The poem appears in True Stories ( Oxford University Press , 1981), her 9th poem collection, [ 2 ] which is dedicated to Carolyn Forche . [ 3 ]

9. Calamus (poems) - Wikipedia

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   The first evidence of the poems that were to become the "Calamus" cluster is an unpublished manuscript sequence of twelve poems entitled "Live Oak With Moss," written in or before spring 1859. [4] These poems were all incorporated in Whitman's 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, but out of their original sequence. These poems seem to recount the ...