| recitation | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. recitation | written matter that is recited from memory. |
| ~ matter | written works (especially in books or magazines).; "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane" |
| n. (communication) | 2. reading, recital, recitation | a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance.; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" |
| ~ oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking, speaking | delivering an address to a public audience.; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking" |
| ~ declamation | recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric. |
| n. (act) | 3. class period, course session, recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study. |
| ~ course, course of instruction, course of study, class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" |
| ~ session | a meeting devoted to a particular activity.; "a filming session"; "a gossip session" |
| n. (act) | 4. drill, exercise, practice, practice session, recitation | systematic training by multiple repetitions.; "practice makes perfect" |
| ~ grooming, training, preparation | activity leading to skilled behavior. |
| ~ fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire. |
| ~ manual of arms, manual | (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle. |
| ~ military drill | training in marching and the use of weapons. |
| ~ rehearsal | (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory. |
| ~ dry run, rehearsal | a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert).; "he missed too many rehearsals"; "a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding" |
| ~ brushup, review | practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory. |
| ~ scrimmage | (American football) practice play between a football team's squads. |
| ~ shadowboxing | sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training). |
| ~ target practice | practice in shooting at targets. |
| rime | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime | ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside). |
| ~ ice, water ice | water frozen in the solid state.; "Americans like ice in their drinks" |
| n. (communication) | 2. rhyme, rime | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds). |
| ~ poem, verse form | a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. |
| ~ versification | the form or metrical composition of a poem. |
| ~ internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line. |
| ~ alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" |
| ~ assonance, vowel rhyme | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words. |
| ~ consonance, consonant rhyme | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words. |
| ~ double rhyme | a two-syllable rhyme.; "`ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme" |
| ~ eye rhyme | an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move'). |
| ~ assonant | having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables.; "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'" |
| v. (stative) | 3. rhyme, rime | be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable.; "hat and cat rhyme" |
| ~ correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check | be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" |
| ~ assonate | correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance.; "The accented vowels assonated in this poem" |
| v. (creation) | 4. rhyme, rime | compose rhymes. |
| ~ poesy, poetry, verse | literature in metrical form. |
| ~ create verbally | create with or from words. |
| ~ tag | supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes. |
| ~ alliterate | use alliteration as a form of poetry. |
| verse | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. poesy, poetry, verse | literature in metrical form. |
| ~ hush, stillness, still | (poetic) tranquil silence.; "the still of the night" |
| ~ epos | a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme. |
| ~ literary genre, writing style, genre | a style of expressing yourself in writing. |
| ~ epic poetry, heroic poetry | poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero. |
| ~ dolor, dolour | (poetry) painful grief. |
| ~ erin | an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry. |
| ~ lyric | write lyrics for (a song). |
| ~ relyric | write new lyrics for (a song). |
| ~ rhyme, rime | compose rhymes. |
| ~ tag | supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes. |
| ~ alliterate | use alliteration as a form of poetry. |
| ~ poetise, poetize, verse, versify | compose verses or put into verse.; "He versified the ancient saga" |
| ~ metrify | compose in poetic meter.; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely" |
| ~ spondaise, spondaize | make spondaic.; "spondaize verses" |
| ~ elegise, elegize | compose an elegy. |
| ~ sonnet | compose a sonnet. |
| ~ sonnet | praise in a sonnet. |
| ~ scan | conform to a metrical pattern. |
| ~ darkling | (poetic) occurring in the dark or night.; "a darkling journey" |
| ~ stilly | (poetic) still or calm.; "in the stilly night" |
| ~ scrivened | copied in handwriting. |
| ~ lyric | of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way).; "lyric poetry" |
| ~ sweet, sweetly | in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly').; "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"; "talking sweet to each other" |
| n. (communication) | 2. rhyme, verse | a piece of poetry. |
| ~ poem, verse form | a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. |
| ~ clerihew | a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew" |
| ~ doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle | a comic verse of irregular measure.; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" |
| ~ limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba. |
| n. (communication) | 3. verse, verse line | a line of metrical text. |
| ~ poem, verse form | a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. |
| ~ iambic | a verse line consisting of iambs. |
| ~ adonic, adonic line | a verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; supposedly used in laments by Adonis. |
| ~ line | text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen.; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza" |
| ~ tetrameter | a verse line having four metrical feet. |
| ~ pentameter | a verse line having five metrical feet. |
| ~ hexameter | a verse line having six metrical feet. |
| ~ octameter | a verse line having eight metrical feet. |
| ~ octosyllable | a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines. |
| ~ decasyllable | a verse line having ten syllables. |
| v. (creation) | 4. poetise, poetize, verse, versify | compose verses or put into verse.; "He versified the ancient saga" |
| ~ poesy, poetry, verse | literature in metrical form. |
| ~ indite, pen, write, compose | produce a literary work.; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" |
| ~ metrify | compose in poetic meter.; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely" |
| ~ spondaise, spondaize | make spondaic.; "spondaize verses" |
| ~ elegise, elegize | compose an elegy. |
| ~ sonnet | compose a sonnet. |
| v. (communication) | 5. verse | familiarize through thorough study or experience.; "She versed herself in Roman archeology" |
| ~ familiarise, familiarize, acquaint | make familiar or conversant with.; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" |
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