| Main Entry: | ballad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | narrative song |
Synonyms: |
carol, chant, ditty, serenade |
| Main Entry: | carol |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joyful hymn |
Synonyms: |
Christmas song, ballad, canticle, canzonet, chorus, ditty, lay, madrigal, noel, song, strain |
| Main Entry: | ditty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song |
Synonyms: |
ballad, composition, jingle, tune |
| Main Entry: | folklore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tales from the past |
Synonyms: |
ballad, custom, fable, folk story, legend, myth, mythology, mythos, oral literature, superstition, tradition, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | ode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poem |
Synonyms: |
ballad, composition, epode, limerick, lyric, poesy, rhyme, song, sonnet, verse |
| Main Entry: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
Synonyms: |
ballad, beat, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poesy, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing |
Antonyms: |
prose |
| Main Entry: | romance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fanciful story or narrative |
Synonyms: |
ballad, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, idealization, idyll, legend, love story, lyric, melodrama, novel, story, tale, tear-jerker |
| Main Entry: | song |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melody sung or played with musical instrument |
Synonyms: |
air, anthem, aria, ballad, canticle, carol, chant, chorale, chorus, ditty, expression, golden oldie, hymn, lay, lullaby, lyric, melody, number, oldie, opera, piece, poem, psalm, refrain, rock, rock and roll, round, shanty, strain, tune, verse, vocal |
| Main Entry: | verse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written composition |
Synonyms: |
ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poesy, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, sonnet, stanza |
| Notes: | technically, a stanza is a succession of lines that form a poem or song, and a verse is either a single line of writing or a series of lines in a song |
| Main Entry: | poesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poem |
Synonyms: |
ballad, beat*, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing |