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111waka — /wah keuh/, n., pl. waka, wakas. 1. Pros. tanka. 2. poetry written in Japanese, as distinct from poetry written in Chinese by a Japanese writer, or poetry in other languages. [1875 80; < Japn: lit., Japanese song < MChin, equiv. to Chin hé… …
112LETTERS AND LETTER WRITERS — The letter holds an honored place in Jewish history and literature and includes diplomatic correspondence, state papers, and letters as vehicles of religious or secular literature and as a means of polemics in communal and spiritual matters,… …
113Shayari — In Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Shaayaree, or poetry, essentially comprises couplet, or Sher. The plural for Sher is Ashaar . The form ghazal is a collection of mulitiple ashaar each of which should convey a complete thought without any reference to… …
114Rhyme — A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs. The word rhyme may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes. Contents 1… …
115Geoffrey of Vinsauf — (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J. Murphy for its interest in teaching ars poetria (1971, vii ff.). Ars poetria is a subdivision of the grammatical art ( ars grammatica… …
116James McMichael — James L. McMichael (born 1939) is an award winning American poet.His first new poetry collection in a decade, Capacity , was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry. [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006 p mcmichael.html#] National… …
117Jo Gwang-jo — Hangul 조광조 Hanja 趙光祖 Revised Romanization …
118Der arme Heinrich — (Poor Heinrich) is a Middle High German narrative poem by Hartmann von Aue. It was probably written in the 1190s and was the second to last of Hartmann s four epic works. The poem combines courtly and religious narrative patterns to tell the… …
119chōka — The chōka or “long poem” (sometimes called a nagauta) is one of the two forms of poetry used by the Japanese poets whose work was collected in the eighth century anthology called The MAN’YŌSHŪ (the other form being the TANKA, or “short poem”) …
120PROVERBS, BOOK OF — (Heb. סֵפֶר מִשְׁלֵי, Sefer Mishlei), one of the three wisdom books of the Hagiographa, representing the affirmative and didactic element in wisdom (ḥokhmah), in contrast to the radical questioning of Job and Ecclesiastes. In its present form the …
