Poetry and Speech

Poetry

Poetry noun - Writing that uses rhythm, vivid language, and often rhyme to provoke an emotional response.

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Speech and poetry are semantically related in communication topic. In some cases you can use "Speech" instead a noun "Poetry".

Nearby Words: poetic, poem, poet, poetical, poetically

Speech noun - A usually formal discourse delivered to an audience.

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Poetry and speech are semantically related in communication topic. Sometimes you can use "Poetry" instead a noun "Speech".

Nearby Word: speechless

good	good poetry	good speech
short	short poetry	short speech
original	original poetry	original speech
great	great poetry	great speech
Other adjectives: bad, famous, epic, odd, modern.

Shout-Out: Plenty, mostly from Psmith, who frequently references poetry, song and Classical Mythology in his speech.

Source: Literature / Psmith
If a fictional character from any work is invoking the name of GOD (especially in cases of having the role of God), his speech shall reflect the poetry of the Bible or Qur'an, with overdosed injections of mythical allusions added in their sentences.

Source: World of Ham
Poetry gets a flourishing, handwritten look, exposition looks slightly different than dialogue (even if it's exposition in speech bubbles, not text boxes), purely German text is generally in Fraktur script and so on.

Source: Comic Book / Logicomix

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