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Strophe

In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

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Stanza 76% connected

A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part o…

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Lyric 70% connected

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Isosyllabism noun · 78% connection

(linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse.; "But it is likewise true that — especially in the context of the eighteenth centu…

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Alliteration noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Beginning rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Blank verse noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)

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Elegy noun · 78% connection

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

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Enjambement noun · 78% connection

the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

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Enjambment noun · 78% connection

the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

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Free verse noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

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Haiku noun · 78% connection

an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines

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Head rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Initial rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Lament noun · 78% connection

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

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Ode noun · 78% connection

a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

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Vers libre noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

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Antistrophe noun · 78% connection

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hen…

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Boustrophedon noun · 78% connection

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowe…

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Burr noun · 78% connection

The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left…

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Cantata noun · 78% connection

A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; origi…

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Center noun · 78% connection

Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative…

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Choragus noun · 78% connection

A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents a…

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Choral adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

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Choral ode noun · 78% connection

ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama

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Concertmeister noun · 78% connection

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.

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Conductor noun · 78% connection

The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.

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Conistra noun · 78% connection

Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wr…

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Deflection noun · 78% connection

The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; devi…

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Dextrorotatory adjective · 78% connection

Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as…

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Dextrorse adjective · 78% connection

Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory.

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Diagonal noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from t…

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Facing noun · 78% connection

The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.

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Figurant n. masc. · 78% connection

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: greek, choruses, dances, movement, chorus.
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Gyroidal adjective · 78% connection

Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

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