Volta (literature)

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title: Volta (literature)
text: The volta is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. Turns are seen in all types of written poetry. In the last two decades, the volta has become conventionally used as a word for this, stemming supposedly from technique specific mostly to sonnets. Volta is not, in fact, a term used by many earlier critics when they address the idea of a turn in a poem, and they usually are not discussing the sonnet form. It is a common Italian word more often used of the idea of a time
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description: Shift or point of dramatic change in literature
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date created: 2006-12-03T23:49:35Z
date modified: 2024-08-29T20:13:19Z
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