poetic license

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The liberty taken by an artist or a writer in deviating from conventional form or fact to achieve a desired effect
license used by a writer or artist to heighten the effect of their work

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poetic licence
Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by a writer to achieve a desired effect
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. poetic license the freedom that poets and other artists have to change facts, ignore grammar rules etc, because what they are making is poetry or art
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