mock heroic
71The Legend of Good Women — is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer.The poem is the third longest of Chaucer’s works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter… …
72Bayard — /bay euhrd/, n. 1. a magical legendary horse in medieval chivalric romances. 2. a mock heroic name for any horse. 3. (l.c.) Archaic. a bay horse. [1275 1325; ME < MF; see BAY5, ARD] /bay euhrd/; for 1 also Fr. /bann yannrdd /, n. 1. Pierre… …
73ottava rima — /oh tah veuh ree meuh/, pl. ottava rimas. an Italian stanza of eight lines, each of eleven syllables (or, in the English adaptation, of ten or eleven syllables), the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet with a… …
74Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …
75Spenser, Edmund — born 1552/53, London, Eng. died Jan. 13, 1599, London English poet. Little is known for certain about his life before he entered the University of Cambridge. His first important publication, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), can be called the… …
76Yiddish literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language of Ashkenazic (Ashkenazi) Jewry (central and eastern European Jews and their descendants). Yiddish literature culminated in the period from 1864 to 1939, inspired …
77Portuguese Literature — • The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the lingua rustica spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire . . . Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Portuguese Literature Portuguese Li …
78burlesque — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Broadway, Thalia, aggrandize, aggrandizement, agile wit, amplification, amplify, anamorphosis, ape, arlequinade, bad likeness, ballyhoo, belie, big talk, black comedy, black humor, blowing up, botch, broad,… …
79caricature — n Caricature, burlesque, parody, travesty are comparable as nouns meaning a grotesque or bizarre imitation of something and as verbs meaning to make such an imitation. Caricature implies ludicrous exaggeration or distortion (often pictorial) of… …
80Bay|ard — «BAY uhrd», noun, adjective. Archaic. –n. 1. a bay horse. 2. a kind of mock heroic allusive name for any horse, especially for a proverbial horse who was both blind and bold. –adj. of a bay color; bay: »a bayard horse. ╂[< Old French baiard a… …
