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Synonyms for Haiku:
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n.
• communication • poem • poetry Other synonyms:
- blank verse ,
- cycle ,
- ditty ,
- doggerel ,
- elegy ,
- epic ,
- epigram ,
- free verse .
Other relevant words:
- Alba ,
- Anacreontic ,
- CANSO ,
- Canzonet ,
- Epithalamium ,
- Epode ,
- Epopee ,
- Epopoeia ,
- Georgic ,
- Ghazel ,
- Idyl ,
- Palinode ,
- Prothalamium ,
- Triolet ,
- Villanelle ,
- Virelay ,
- balada ,
- ballade ,
- bucolic ,
- canon ,
- clerihew ,
- complaint ,
- cry ,
- dirge ,
- dithyramb ,
- eclogue ,
- epic poem ,
- epos ,
- fugue ,
- hymn ,
- lament ,
- lamentation ,
- literary composition ,
- literary work ,
- lyric poem ,
- madrigal ,
- moan ,
- monody ,
- narrative poem ,
- nursery rhyme ,
- odyssey ,
- pastoral ,
- pastoral elegy ,
- pastourelle ,
- poesy ,
- rhapsody ,
- rondeau ,
- rondel ,
- rondo ,
- roundel ,
- roundelay ,
- satire ,
- sestina ,
- sloka ,
- tanka ,
- tenso ,
- threnody ,
- verse form ,
- versicle ,
- wail .
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What are the hypernyms for Haiku?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
verse, japanese poetry, poetic form.
What are the hyponyms for Haiku?
Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
hyponyms for haiku (as nouns)
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communication
poem, verse form.
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communication
What are the antonyms for Haiku?
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n.
• poem
Usage examples for Haiku
You ought to see the jacknape skipping out of the room when the geisha came into it the other night,-I don't like his trying to deceive us, but if one were to point it out for him, he would deny it or say it was the Russian literature or that the haiku is a half-brother of the new poetry, and expect to hush it up by twaddling soft nonsense.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
You know, there's a haiku by Basho I love very much.
"The Samurai Strategy"
She paused to let the meaning sink in, to feel that open- ended sensation a good haiku always sends your imagination spinning off into.
"The Samurai Strategy"
Famous quotes with Haiku
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Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
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"Sixty years ago Catholics played a prominent, prestigious, and irreplaceable part in American literary culture...They included established fiction writers--Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy, J.F. Powers, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Horgan, Jack Kerouac, Julien Green, Pietro di Donato, Hisaye Yamamoto, Edwin O'Connor, Henry Morton Robinson, and Caroline Gordon. (Sociologist Father Andrew Greeley had yet to try his formidable hand at fiction.)...also science fiction and detective writers such as Anthony Boucher, Donald Westlake, August Delerth, and Walter Miller, Jr."...in American poetry...Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Robert Fitzgerald, Kenneth Rexroth, John Berryman, Isabella Gardner, Phyllis McGinley, Claude McKay, Dunstan Thompson, John Frederick Nims, Brother Antoninus (William Everson), Thomas Merton, Josephine Jacobsen, and the Berrigan brothers, Ted and Daniel....There were even Catholic haiku poets, notably Raymond Roseliep and Nick Virgilio" (15-16).
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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