Enrich your Vocabulary

• Haiku(Japan): Unrhymed poem in three lines or Japanese three-part poem.

• Literature: Written works especially those whose value lies in beauty of language or in emotional effect eg. novels, poetry, plays, histories, biographies, essays etc.

• Tongue-twister: Sequence of words difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly.

• Trilogy: Literary work in three connected parts.

• Preface: Introduction to a large book, stating its subject and scope.

• Vignette: Brief incident, scene or a story; a short descriptive essay or character sketch.

• Stanza: Division of a poem (often into four, usually not more than twelve lines).

• Rhyme: Identity, correspondence in sounds between words or the endings of words especially in poetry.

• Anthology: Collection of writings by different authors.

• Bibiliography: List of resources used in compiling a text or books reffered to; a list of the books of a specific author or publisher.