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www.jacojacobs.co.za. Jaco Jacobs (born 1980) is a South African children's author who writes in Afrikaans . Jacobs was born in the South African town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape. He started writing at a young age and sold his first short stories to magazines while still in high school. [ 1 ] To date, he has published more than 260 books for ...
Medieval poetry. Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours, trouvères, and the minnesänger are known for composing their lyric poetry about courtly love usually accompanied by an instrument. [ 1] Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a manuscript collection of 254 ...
Poetic devices. Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [ 1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.
Ten-codes, especially "10-4" (meaning "understood") first reached public recognition in the mid- to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford. [ citation needed ] Crawford would reach into his patrol car to use the microphone to answer a call and precede his response with "10-4".
Asemic writing from Marco Giovenale [ 1] Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The word asemic / eɪˈsiːmɪk / means "having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning". [ 5] With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader ...
Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. [ 1] It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct meaning of its own. Concrete poetry relates more to the visual than to the verbal arts although ...
Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. [ 1] It is sometimes classified as a form of Postmodernism. [ 2] It has been described as poetry of the personal or "I", focusing on extreme moments of individual experience, the psyche, and personal trauma ...
50 friendship quotes. "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." – Winnie the Pooh. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you ...