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sound poetry

sound poetry noun: an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.

Noun

sound poetry (usually uncountable, plural sound poetries)

  1. (usually) An artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.

Forms of sound poetry

pluralsound poetries

Questions about sound poetry

What does sound poetry mean?
Sound poetry means an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.
What part of speech is sound poetry?
Sound poetry is a noun.
What is the plural of sound poetry?
The plural of sound poetry is sound poetries.

Words near sound poetry in the dictionary

  1. sound on the goose
  2. sound out
  3. sound plural
  4. sound plurals
  5. sound poetries
  6. sound poetry
  7. sound post
  8. sound posts
  9. sound recording
  10. sound shadow
  11. sound shadows

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