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poetics

Pronunciation: /pəʊˈɛtɪks/
Definition of poetics

noun

[treated as singular]
  • the art of writing poetry: both poetics and rhetoric make use of narrative structure
  • the study of linguistic techniques in poetry and literature: the terminology of traditional poetics

poetics in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of poetics in the US English dictionary