of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
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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literature in metrical form
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.literature in metrical form
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.literature in metrical form
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry, Genre.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.unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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 expressing yourself in writing
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.a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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.(linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowe…
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.A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or l…
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.Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small pic…
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.Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter readin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, poetry, isosyllabic, verse, likewise.
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