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A literary passage that has no logical connection to the surrounding work, or that is a long digression that becomes less and less related to the original passage
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Horatian ode — Pros. an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form. Also called Lesbian ode, Sapphic ode. Cf. Pindaric ode. * * * ▪ poetic form short lyric poem written in stanzas of two or four lines in the manner of the 1st century BC Latin… … Universalium
French literature — Introduction the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the … Universalium
German literature — Introduction German literature comprises the written works of the German speaking peoples of central Europe. It has shared the fate of German politics and history: fragmentation and discontinuity. Germany did not become a modern nation… … Universalium
epigram — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, abridgment, adage, alba, ana, anacreontic, analects, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, axiom,… … Moby Thesaurus
