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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

Guest Book	GB
hagiography	A study of the lives of the saints.
haiku	A Japanese poem where the form consists of a single three-line stanza of seventeen syllables. The first line contains five syllables, the second contains seven, whilst the last has, again, five syllables. The short poem encapsulates the spirit of the poet's mood. Haikus often lose their meaning in translation.
hallel	A prayer based on some of the Psalms.
hamartia	A tragic flaw.
Harriet Beecher Stowe	An American novelist and abolitionist . Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin shoed life for African-American slaves.
Harvey Spaulding ToastMasters Club	HSTM
head rhyme	Actually another term for alliteration.
Hemingway code hero	Qualities such as honour, courage and dignity which are expressed in a hero in a Hemingway novel.
Hengwrt manuscript	A fifteenth century manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
heptameter	A line that contains seven metrical feet.
heraldry	The study and investigation of coats-of-arms and aristocratic insignia.
hero	the leading character or protagonist in a narrative. Generally, in modern terminology, the hero is good and male. A female hero is called a heroine. The opposite of the hero is the anti-hero.
heroic couplet	Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter, where the second line is usually end-stopped. It was convention to string long sequences of heroic couplets together in a pattern of aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff etc.
hexameter	A line of meter that has six feet. This type of metrical foot is widespread in Greek and Latin literature.
high comedy	Comedy consisting of witty repartee and a complex plot.
High Performance Club	HPC
High Performance Leadership program	HPL
Hillcrest Transit Toastmasters	HTT
historical novel	A novel where real historical events are featured, with the combination of fictional characters.