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Metaphors and similes help poets represent their ideas and feelings in imagery. They also help create shared experiences.

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Dialogue refers to any direct communication from one or more characters in the text. This communication is almost always verbal—except for sci-fi telepathy, which still counts, and except for instances of inner dialogue, where the character is speaking to themselves.

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Poetry is the oldest form of literature, a full-throated inquiry into the human experience, and a means of compressing life into the fewest words.

All of these things are true, yet none of them convey a useful introduction to poetry. Defining this deceptive term d’arte is 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥. Not because we can’t easily identify a poem, but because poetry has a wide range of definitions and histories.

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A cinquain is a stanza composed of five lines, which makes a cinquain poem a poem composed of five-line stanzas. These short poems are the perfect length to find insight through brevity, and if you’re considering tinkering with shorter poetry forms, you might want to play with cinquain poetry.

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A common distinction between different types of fiction is whether the story is “plot-driven” or “character-driven.” This refers to whether the plot of a story defines the characters, or whether the characters define the plot of a story.

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