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  2. Poetry in judicial opinions - Wikipedia

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    Poetry is an outlet for judges to not only pass on information about the dispute, but to also hone their professional writing. [9] While prose allows judges to arrange their thoughts, poetry has inherent constraints that force them to deliberately extract the core issues in the case before them, [ 10 ] while also allowing judges to communicate ...

  3. Farce - Wikipedia

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    The best known farce is La Farce de maître Pathelin (The Farce of Master Pathelin) from c. 1460. [3] Spoof films such as Spaceballs, a comedy based on the Star Wars movies, are farces. [4] Sir George Grove opined that the "farce" began as a canticle in the common French tongue intermixed with Latin. It became a vehicle for satire and fun, and ...

  4. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    According to Alastair Fowler, the following elements can define genres: organizational features (chapters, acts, scenes, stanzas); length; mood; style; the reader's role (e.g., in mystery works, readers are expected to interpret evidence); and the author's reason for writing (an epithalamion is a poem composed for marriage).

  5. Poetic journal - Wikipedia

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    A poetic journal is a literary genre combining aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, "takes" of journal writing. Born of twin impulses: to track change in daily life and to memorialize experience, poetic journals owe allegiances to Asian writing — particularly the Japanese haibun of Matsuo Bashō, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, and the poetic diaries of Masaoka Shiki — as ...

  6. Futurism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The Futurist poem "Zang tumb tumb" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, on a wall in Leiden, The Netherlands. In Marinetti's 1909 manifesto, Marinetti calls for the reawakening of "divine intuition" that "after hours of relentless toil" allows for the "creative spirit seems suddenly to shake off its shackles and become prey to an incomprehensible spontaneity of conception and execution".

  7. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    epic poetry 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.

  8. Objectivism (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    The first appearance of the group was in a special issue of Poetry magazine in February 1931; this was arranged for by Pound and edited by Zukofsky (Vol. 37, No. 5).In addition to poems by Rakosi, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, George Oppen, Basil Bunting and William Carlos Williams, Zukofsky included work by a number of poets who would have little or no further association with the group: Howard Weeks ...

  9. Christopher Anstey - Wikipedia

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    Poetry in Latin makes up only a quarter of Anstey's published output, but his poetical career both began and ended with it. His first major work was a translation undertaken in collaboration with his friend William Hayward Roberts, also a Fellow at King's College at the time, and published anonymously in 1762.