Term for poetry which mimics what it describes. Term for poetry that mimics what it describes.

I’m blanking on the word for when a verse mimics that which it describes – for example, a poem talking about a confusing encounter would become confusing itself – each time I search for it I keep coming up with onomatopoeia and it’s frustratating me.

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If there was only one word the OED calls ‘of a word’. The OED said “Of a word, esp. 1′. , having or representing the property it denotes. (adjectives) So if heterological adj. be rejected > if. > if.. > > if.. – = – ‘== ”===============================… ‘ It gives three citations for this sense:

  • 1926 F. P. Ramsey in Proc. London Maths. Soc.: What are the
    meanings of adjectives whose meanings are predicates of them?
  • 1947 H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic (1948) vi. 220 Let us comprise as autological all properties of names which have the property they denote.
  • 1952 R.L. Wilder Introd. Found. Math. This is the second letter to be translated as ii. iii. iii. iii. I am learning about iii. Is the
    adjective ‘hetero’ either autological or heterological?

Descriptive examples such as a curt, pentasyllabic, and sesquipedalian should be taken into account as they are autological. Each of these double-dactyls by Roger L. Robison means: Long-short, long-short, and short-short. The poems in this double-dactyl are:

(Masculine

rhyme):

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Shape poetry or concrete poetry, attempting to convey the imagery of the poem through the way that the words are arranged on the page.

I would suggest mimetic poetry, but googling the term only brings up references to Plato and Aristotle, and their assertions that “poetry is mimetic in that it creates a representation of objects and events in the world, unlike philosophy, for example, which presents ideas.” I

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What is the word you’re likely to encounter in school Renaissance poetry class the scholarly term Technopaegnia, 1 ancient Greek for “games of skill”. The simplest examples of interplay between the words in a poem and their structure, including (but not limited to) picture poems, acrostics, and other such puzzles. Technopaegnia is not originally an English word, but is “surely an everyday term in literary theory” 4.

If your eyes need a few minutes, the four references noted above are highly interesting and worth a look.

Me, Texas poet, suggested the word “the poet”.

Answered on September 22, 2021.
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What is the word you’re likely to encounter in school Renaissance poetry class the scholarly term Technopaegnia, 1 ancient Greek for “games of skill”. The simplest examples of interplay between the words in a poem and their structure, including (but not limited to) picture poems, acrostics, and other such puzzles. Technopaegnia is not originally an English word, but is “surely an everyday term in literary theory” 4.

If your eyes need a few minutes, the four references noted above are highly interesting and worth a look.

Me, Texas poet, suggested the word “the poet”.

Answered on September 22, 2021.
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Shape poetry or concrete poetry, attempting to convey the imagery of the poem through the way that the words are arranged on the page.

I would suggest mimetic poetry, but googling the term only brings up references to Plato and Aristotle, and their assertions that “poetry is mimetic in that it creates a representation of objects and events in the world, unlike philosophy, for example, which presents ideas.” I

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