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Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns, or prose poetry.

Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from prose.

From the mid 20th century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental creative act using language. Poetry often uses particular forms and conventions to suggest alternative meanings in the words, or to evoke emotional or sensual responses.

Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations.

Similarly, metaphor, simile, and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhythm.

Some forms of poetry are specific to particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. While readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as being written in rhyming lines and regular meter, there are traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other approaches to achieve rhythm and euphony.

Much of modern British and American poetry is to some extent a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing the principle of euphony itself, to the extent that sometimes it deliberately does not rhyme or keep to set rhythms at all. In today globalized world, poets often borrow styles, techniques and forms from diverse cultures and languages.  

A birthday, as the term implies, is the anniversary of the particular day on which a person was born. Though by no means universal, such occasions are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a party or, in some instances, a rite of passage.

A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. These jokes will normally have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous.  

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