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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
| Synonyms: | ballad, beat, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poesy, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing |
| Antonyms: | prose |
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| Main Entry: | song |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melody sung or played with musical instrument |
| Synonyms: | air, anthem, aria, ballad, canticle, carol, chant, chorale, chorus, ditty, expression, golden oldie, hymn, lay, lullaby, lyric, melody, number, oldie, opera, piece, poem, psalm, refrain, rock, rock and roll, round, shanty, strain, tune, verse, vocal |
| Main Entry: | verse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written composition |
| Synonyms: | ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poesy, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, sonnet, stanza |
| Notes: | technically, a stanza is a succession of lines that form a poem or song, and a verse is either a single line of writing or a series of lines in a song |
| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printed composition |
| Synonyms: | article, belles-lettres, book, discourse, dissertation, document, editorial, essay, letter, literature, manuscript, novel, ode, opus, pamphlet, paper, piece, play, poem, prose, publication, record, review, signature, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, work |
| Main Entry: | prosody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | versification |
| Synonyms: | metrics, poem, poetic rhythm, poetry |
| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expressive, rhythmic literary work |
| Synonyms: | balladry, doggerel, metrical composition, paean, poems, poesy, rhyme, rhyming, rime, rune, song, stanza, verse, versification |
| Antonyms: | prose |
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| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Apollonian, Attic, Byronic, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Parnassian, Rabelaisian, Renaissance, Victorian, allonymous, anepigraphous, anonymous, anopisthographic, auctorial, battological, bibliophagic, bucolic, classical, cuneiform, demotic, epistolary, erotographomanic, graphic, heroic, hieroglyphical, in black and white, in prose, in type, in writing, macaronic, melic, mock, onomastic, onymous, out of print, phat, printed, printless, prosaic, prosy, rimeless, runic, scribaceous, scribblative, scripturient, stylized, tabellarious, tete, uncial, under one's hand, unpoetical, unrecorded, unregistered, unrimed, unwritten, writing, written
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