During the three or four years I've asked for terms, I've gotten NONE with definitions, and--at most--two terms not either already in my dictionary or in every standard dictionary and not in mine only because I obviously haven't gotten around to putting it in. It is annoying to be sent entries like "alliteration," for instance. I consider it spam--although I realize some senders may sincerely have thought they were helping me out. Anyway, I'm closing down the sending area for new words so I won't be any longer bothered with inappropriate responses.

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Many of the first terms recorded here are from the glossary of my book on poetry, Of Manywhere-at-Once, Volume 1: Ruminations from the Site of a Poem's Construction. I didn't start with them because of their importance but because they are the poetics terms most readily available to me. Note: many of the terms and/or definitions are peculiar to me, so don't use them to answer questions in exams, kids.

aesthcipient: the recipient of an artwork, especially one who experiences it in more than one way--e.g., visually and verbally

alliteration: a repenation whose shared sound is a consonant-sound that begins a syllable (e.g., bat/bug and kite/cane)

alphaconceptual poetry: for the most part, poetry whose spelling is equaphorically significant, and which is therefore "infra-verbally" as well as verbally expressive

alphaconceptual illumagery: for the most part, textual illumagery whose textual elements are equaphorically important

anapaestic meter: a form of meter one "foot" or unit of which consists of two weak beats followed by a strong one, as in the word, "interrupt"

archetype: an image or idea so powerful to the human psyche that it is universally emotionally rich

assonance: a repenation whose shared sound is a vowel-sound (e.g., bat/rag and pick/sift)

backward rhyme: in general, any set of words whose last or only syllables sound alike except for their final sounds (e.g., miles/mind)

cacophony: a harsh sound--commonly used in poetry to provide relief from excessive euphony

compound pluraesthetic poetry: poetry which is pluraesthetic in more than one major way

concrete poetry: a 1950's term which has come to mean approximately what I mean by the term, "vizlature"

consonance: a repenation whose shared sound is a consonant-sound that ends a syllable (e.g., bat/cut and rib/job)

content: in my poetics simply a poem's physical text (and what it means semantically)

dislocational poetry: poetry whose syntax or train of thought is dislocatingly unconventional

dysphony: cacophony

euphony: a particularly musical sound in poetry

equaphor: that term of an equaphorical expression that is the less important of the expression's two terms so far as the artwork containing the expression is concerned; four kinds exist: the simile, the metaphor, the juxtaphor and the symbol

equaphorical expression: an aesthetic analogy, explicit or implicit, that consists of an equaphor and the equaphor's referent

equaphoration: a poem's analogical devices.

equaphorical referent: that term of an equaphorical expression that is the more important of the expression's two terms so far as the artwork containging the expression is concerned.

foot: one unit of a meter

fore-burden: what, on the surface, a poem is chiefly about (e.g., its plot, or what happens; its argument, or "moral;" its ambience, or "feel")

form: the sum of a poem's most abstract structural elements--such as its metric pattern, its rhyme- scheme--and perhaps the grammatical conventions it adheres to; that which "contains" a poem's content

highverse: poetry which depends for its main esthetic effect on equaphoration

iambic meter: a form of meter one "foot" or unit of which consists of a weak beat followed by a strong beat, as in the word, "pursue"

illumagery: visual art

illuscription: words and pictures together in more or less equal portions but not fused

internal rhyme: a rhyme one or more of whose rhymenants are within a line rather than at its end

inversion: the shifting of one word from after to before a second against normal prose usage-- usually in order to complete a rhyme or to obey some metrical scheme

irony: a juxtaphor in which an image or idea is presented concurrently with its reverse

juxtaphor: an implicit metaphor of which there are several kinds, including the irony, the pun, the onomatopoeia and the litraphor

language poetry: a dislocational form of poetry

lineation: the division of a text into lines ending or beginning where their author dictates rather than at (or near) some constant pre-set margin

litraphor: an entirely verbal juxtaphor whose equaphor and referent are separate from each other.

Manywhere-at-Once: a state of being in more that one consequential area of one's mind at once due to the effects of poetry

melodation: a poem's sound, or its combination of rhyme, meter, alliteration, euphony, cacophony and like aurally-based devices

metaphor: an object, process or group of objects or processes that is equated (equaphorically) with a second object, process or group of objects or processes with which it has some elements in common but is otherwise significantly different from; or, put more simply, a pair of dissimilar images which are (equaphorically) equated with each other, and thus put an aesthcipient into Manywhere-at-Once

meter: the result of syllables' arrangement into a repeating pattern of accented and unaccented beats of which, in my poetics, there are only two important kinds, the iambic and the anapaestic

nearprose: poetry whose only poetic device is lineation

nexus: the implicit image or concept that an equaphor and its referent have in common, or meet at

normal rhyme: in general, any set of words whose last or only syllables sound alike except for their first sounds (e.g., seems/dreams)

octave: the first eight lines of an "Italian" sonnet

onomatopoeia: a word or group of words whose pronunciation suggests what it denotes--buzz, for instance, both meaning, and sounding like, the sound a bee makes

parallellism: the gross repetition of words, syntax or thoughts in poetry (and prose)

pattern poetry: shaped poems

pluraesthetic poetry: poetry which is "plurally aesthetic"--or "aesthetically expressive in more than one major way"--such as visual poetry

poetry: in my poetics any text that is lineated

prose: anything verbal that isn't poetry

pun: a word (or group of words) which is used to express two different things at once: its own meaning and that of a second verbal expression which it exactly or nearly sounds like-- or is

repenation: that which results when two or more syllables that are fairly close to each other in a passage share one or more sounds (excluding the sound of silence)

repeneme: the sounds shared by the syllables involved in a repenation

rhyme: in general, any set of words whose final, or only, syllables sound alike except for one of their sounds (e.g., seems/dreams, miles/mind and seek/sake)

rhymenant: one of the members of a rhyme (e.g., "seems" is one of the rhymenants of seems/dreams)

rhythm: the arrangement of strong and weak beats in poetry or prose--or music

rim-rhyme: in general, any set of words whose final, or only, syllables sound alike except for their vowels (e.g., seek/sake)

sestet: the last six lines of an "Italian" sonnet

shaped poetry: poetry whose lines are at appropriate times indented and/or cut short in such a way as to make their texts resemble things out of nature to the eye

simile: a metaphor whose equaphor and referent have been explicitly connected to one another through the use of "like" or its equivalent (e.g., "brain like a sieve")

sonnet: a traditional poetic form consisting of fourteen iambic pentameters each of whose last words rhymes with some other line's last word

stanza: in poetry what paragraphs are in prose

strophe: stanza

style: in my poetics the tone-establishing kind of words or phrasing or the like used in a poem

symbol: an advertance whose referent is barely suggested

tenor: I. A. Richards's term for what I call a metaphor

textual illumagery: illumagery with textual elements added which modify its tone but nothing deeper

undermeaning: any implicit meaning in a poem that makes sense

vehicle: I. A. Richards's term for what I call a metaphor's referent

verse: in my poetics, a synonym for poetry

visual poetry: poetry whose visual appearance is as important as what it says verbally, to put it simply

vizlature: verbo-visual art, or that part of the media continuum where literature and visual art overlap as in visual poetry and textual illumagery

Note: Comprepoetica has several discussions related to the definition of poetics: click here for one on the taxonomy of visio-textual art, with illustrations; here for a taxonomy of the whole of literature; or here for a defense of such taxonomizing.

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