(verse etc)
21ACROSTICS — (and Alphabetizing Compositions). A literary style in which successive or alternating verses, or clusters of verses, begin with the letters of the alphabet in sequence. Bible Biblical literature has preserved, in complete or truncated form, 14… …
22Türkische Literatur — Türkische Literatur, nennt man vorzugsweise die Literatur der Osmanen, obgleich man sonst mit dem Namen Türken (s.d.) im weiteren Sinne auch die Dschagataisch sprechenden u. schreibenden Osttürken u. die Bewohner des Kiptschak versteht. Wenn auch …
23scan — v. & n. v. (scanned, scanning) 1 tr. look at intently or quickly (scanned the horizon; rapidly scanned the speech for errors). 2 intr. (of a verse etc.) be metrically correct; be capable of being recited etc. metrically (this line doesn t scan).… …
24Koran — (arab.), Lesen od. Gelesenes, mit dem Artikel Alkoran, die Heilige Schrift der Muhammedaner. Der Inhalt des K. ist sehr mannigfach; Unterredung mit Gott, Erzählung, Belehrung, Ermahnung, Drohung u. Verheißung, bürgerliche u. religiöse… …
25literature — [lit′ər ə chər, li′trəchoor΄] n. [ME litterature < OFr < L litteratura < littera, LETTER1] 1. the profession of an author; production of writings, esp. of imaginative prose, verse, etc. 2. a) all writings in prose or verse, esp. those of …
26Jiří Levý — (1926 1967) was a Czech literary theoretician, literary historian and translation theoretician.Early life and careerJiří Levý was born on 8 August 1926 in Košice (East Slovakia), and died on 17 January 1967 in Brno (South Moravia). Levý studied… …
27rhyme — /raɪm / (say ruym) noun 1. agreement in the terminal sounds of lines of verse, or of words. 2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound. 3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the line. 4. a poem or piece of… …
28Multivers — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Mondes possibles (homonymie). Le terme de multivers désigne l ensemble de tous les univers possibles, parmi lesquels figure notre univers observable. Sommaire 1 Approche scientifique 2 …
29expletive — n. & adj. n. 1 an oath, swear word, or other expression, used in an exclamation. 2 a word used to fill out a sentence etc., esp. in verse. adj. serving to fill out (esp. a sentence, line of verse, etc.). Etymology: LL expletivus (as EX (1), plere …
30expletive — is an adjective and a noun: both are pronounced ik splee tiv, with the stress on the second syllable. The primary meaning is ‘filling out a sentence, line of verse, etc.’, and the noun denotes a word that does this, typically in verse, without… …
