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101Heroic Fantasy — Low Fantasy (auch Sword Sorcery, Pulp Fantasy, Schwert und Magie oder Heroic Fantasy) ist eine Unterkategorie des Fantasygenres, die sich auf die Pulptradition der frühen Fantasy bezieht. Definition Die Wurzeln der Low Fantasy liegen in der… …
102heroic couplet — Pros. a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, esp. one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man. [1900 05] * * * ▪… …
103heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, esp. that popular in England c1660 1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets. * * * …
104heroic verse — noun a type of verse used for epic or heroic subjects, such as the iambic pentameter …
105heroic verse — hero′ic verse′ n. pro a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine …
106heroic couplet — /həˌroʊɪk ˈkʌplət/ (say huh.rohik kupluht) noun a pair of rhyming iambic lines of ten syllables, used in heroic verse …
107heroic couplet — noun a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style • Hypernyms: ↑couplet * * * heˌroic ˈcouplet f6 [heroic couplet] noun (technical …
108heroic stanza — noun a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab • Hypernyms: ↑quatrain …
109heroic line — noun see heroic verse 2 …
110heroic quatrain — noun see heroic stanza * * * Pros. a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately. Also called elegiac quatrain …
