HaibunProse written in a terse, haikai style, accompanied by haiku |
HaikaiBroad genre comprising the related forms haiku haikai-renga and haibun |
HaikuModern term for standalone hokku |
Headings, Graphics and ChartsAny visual cues on a page of text that offer additional information to guide the reader’s comprehension. Headings typically are words or phrases in bold print that indicate a topic or the theme of a portion of text; graphics may be photographs, drawings, maps or any other pictorial representation; charts (and tables or graphs) condense data into a series of rows, lines or other shortened lists. |
HexameterA line from a poem hat has six feet in its meter. Another name for hexameter is "The Alexandrine." |
HokkuIn Japanese poetry, the opening stanza of a renga or renku (haikai no renga) |
HyperbatonA figure of speech that alters the syntactic order of the words in a sentence or separates normally-associated words.The term may also be used more generally for all different figures of speech that transpose the natural word order in sentences. |
HyperboleAn exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I had to wait forever.) |
HypotacticA term where different subordinate clauses are used in a sentence to qualify a single verb, or modify it. |
HaibunProse written in a terse, haikai style, accompanied by haiku |
HaikaiBroad genre comprising the related forms haiku haikai-renga and haibun |
HaikuModern term for standalone hokku |
Headings, Graphics and ChartsAny visual cues on a page of text that offer additional information to guide the reader’s comprehension. Headings typically are words or phrases in bold print that indicate a topic or the theme of a portion of text; graphics may be photographs, drawings, maps or any other pictorial representation; charts (and tables or graphs) condense data into a series of rows, lines or other shortened lists. |
HexameterA line from a poem hat has six feet in its meter. Another name for hexameter is "The Alexandrine." |
HokkuIn Japanese poetry, the opening stanza of a renga or renku (haikai no renga) |
HyperbatonA figure of speech that alters the syntactic order of the words in a sentence or separates normally-associated words.The term may also be used more generally for all different figures of speech that transpose the natural word order in sentences. |
HyperboleAn exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I had to wait forever.) |
HypotacticA term where different subordinate clauses are used in a sentence to qualify a single verb, or modify it. |