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[Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse † , prose run mad; macaronics † ; macaronic
verse † , leonine verse; runes.
canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe † .
verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo † , meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm;
accentuation &c (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c; hexameter,
pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis † , antispast † , blank verse, ictus.
elegiacs &c adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist † , scald, skald † , troubadour, trouvere [Fr.];
minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore † ; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer,
rhymist † , rhymester; ballad monger, runer † ; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].
V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c n.; metrical; a
catalectin † ; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic † ; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic † ; Ionic,
Sapphic, Alcaic † , Pindaric.
Phr. a poem round and perfect as a star [Alex.
Smith]; Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.]; furor poeticus [Lat.]; his virtues formed the
magic of his song [Hayley]; I do but sing because I must [Tennyson]; I learnt life from
the poets [de Stael]; licentia vatum [Lat.]; mutum est pictura poema [Lat.]; O for a muse
of fire! [Henry V]; sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge [Sidney]; the true poem is
the poet's mind [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker [G.]; wisdom married to
immortal verse [Wordsworth].
598. Prose -- N. prose, prose writer.
prosaicism † , prosaism † , prosaist † , proser † .
V. prose.
write prose, write in prose.
Adj. prosal † , prosy, prosaic; unpoetic, unpoetical † .
rhymeless † , unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.
599. The Drama -- N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies,
motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin,
sock, cothurnus † , Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.
play, drama, stage play, piece [Fr.], five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville,
comedietta † , lever de rideau [Fr.], interlude, afterpiece † , exode † , farce, divertissement,
extravaganza, burletta † , harlequinade † , pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe [Fr.], ballet,
spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame [Fr.]; melodrama, melodrame † ; comidie
larmoyante [Fr.], sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame
monologue; duologue trilogy † ; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical,
musical comedy.
[movies] western, horse opera; flick [Coll.]; spy film, love story, adventure film,
documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film.
act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue; libretto.
performance, representation, mise en scene [Fr.], stagery † , jeu de theatre [Fr.]; acting;
gesture &c 550; impersonation &c 554; stage business, gag, buffoonery.
light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy.