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poetic license definition

poetic license

  1. deviation from strict fact or from conventional rules of form, style, etc., as by a poet for artistic effect
  2. freedom to do this

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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