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Apostrophe (poetry)
a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an imaginary or abstract thing.
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Imagism
Imagism was a short-lived school of poetry that emphasized clarity and precision and rejected verbiage and sentiment. At the center of the movement was Ezra Pound, who was influenced in his thinking by a group of London poets and philosophers, among them T.E. Hulme, whose essay, “Romanticism and Classicism,” was …
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Acephalous
In poetry, an acephalous line is one that lacks an initial syllable suggested by the meter.
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Abecedarius
= a poem in which each line or stanza begins with a successive letter of the alphabet.
