Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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hymn

Literature; Poetry

A song or ode of praise, usually addressed to gods, but sometimes to abstractions such as Truth, Justice, or Fortune.

hudibrastic verse

Literature; Poetry

A mock-heroic humorous poem written in octosyllabic couplets, after Hudibras, a satirical poem by Samuel Butler.

homonym

Literature; Poetry

One of two or more words which are identical in pronunciation and spelling, but different in meaning, as the noun bear and the verb bear.

horatian ode

Literature; Poetry

An ode relating to or resembling the works or style of the Roman poet, Horace, consisting of a series of uniform stanzas, complex in their metrical system and rhyme scheme. The ...

hovering accent

Literature; Poetry

In scansion, a stress which is thought of as being equally distributed over two adjacent syllables, a concept proposed to cover an accent not in alignment with the expected ...