Literary terminology

  • poem - pemci, valsi morna
  • poetic form (e.g. sonnet) - pemtermo'a

lojbo pemtermo'a

  • rolkemvaxsna pemci, selcinmo pemci (attitudinal poem)
  • ctatanru

borrowed pemtermo'a

  • haiku - pemcrxaiku, slaka kancu pemci, pazemei slaka pemci
    • (slaka kancu pemci really means something like "syllabic verse poem")
  • limerick - pemcrlimriki (pemcrlaimriki has also been used)
  • sonnet - pemcrsoneto

prose literary forms


(Typically, but not necessarily, in prose.)

  • novel - brafi'a
  • short story - cmafi'a

literary devices

  • assonance - karsna rimni
  • alliteration - zunsna rimni
  • end rhyme - ?
  • accentual meter (the kind in English and Lojban) - terbasnyrilti
  • quantitative meter - slakyteirilti

  • line (of verse) - ?
  • stanza, strophe - ?

  • aphorism/epigram/proverb - se cpinyctusku (with a broader meaning; see lujvo for aphorism)


See Notes Towards a Lojban Literary Criticism for a list of sentence writing styles.


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