Alt. of Lyrical
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.
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Isosyllabism
(linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse.; "But it is likewise true that — especially in the context of the eighteenth century — anapestic meter seemed somewhat flippant and irreverent in comparison with the staid isosyllabism of iambic pentameter."
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The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.An epic.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as i…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Genre.an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.a style of expressing yourself in writing
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Same as Anapest, Anapestic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Anapestic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.The study of language as people really speak and write it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Division; separation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.A bud.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order.; "James Scully has observed that much of what is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Act of pointing out or indicating.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.
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