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What (who) is poetic licence - definition
DELIBERATE DISTORTION OF RULES OR CONVENTION FOR AESTHETIC REASONS
Poetic license; Dramatic licence; Dramatic license; Poetic licence; Narrative license; Poetica licentia; Licentia poetica; Literary license; Right to lie; Poetic License; Artistic licence; Narrative licence; Licencia poetica; Historical license; Peotic licence; Literary licence
poetic licence
If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
All that stuff about catching giant fish was just a bit of poetic licence.
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poetic licence
¦ noun departure from convention or factual accuracy in order to create an artistic effect.
Artistic license
<legal> The open source license applicable to Perl.
(1999-12-29)
Wikipedia
Artistic license
Artistic license (alongside more contextually-specific derivative terms such as poetic license, historical license, dramatic license, and narrative license) refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes. It can include the alteration of grammar or language, or the rewording of pre-existing text.
Examples of use of poetic licence
1. And, give or take a bit of poetic licence north of the border, it‘s startlingly accurate.
2. But in the sense of a piece of drama this is legitimate poetic licence.
3. He is not so wonderful a human being that he can be described as divine by a sort of poetic licence, nor is he a divine being come to earth in human disguise.
4. However, these are extreme times, and hence the writer takes recourse to «poetic licence», in its most liberal sense, to coin a word to describe the horror of current affairs.
5. The chorus goes: "Memento Mori/Memento Mori/It‘s Latin and it means/We must all die." Skinner admits it should be lower case memento mori and should not be sung to rhyme with "Tory" but "sore eye". "The only way I could make it fit the rhyme was to pronounce it wrong ... so that‘s a little bit of poetic licence for you." In Can‘t Con An Honest John he outlines a complicated con trick, using slang picked up from his gambling habit.