History: Literary terminology

Source of version: 2 (current)

* 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

* ((figurative language))
** ((kenning))

* assonance - karsna rimni
* alliteration - zunsna rimni
* end rhyme - ?
* accentual meter (the kind in English and Lojban) - terbasnyrilti
* ((essay on quantitative meter|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.

History: Literary terminology

Source of version: 2 (current)

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