Poetry

Poetry (ancient Greek: ????? (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose.

Terms

Periods, styles and movements

:For movements see List of schools of poetry.

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(Organised alphabetically, not by date)

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Technical means

Tropes

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Irony
• Metonymy
• Synecdoche
• Ellipsis

parallelion

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Measures of verse