POETIC FORMS
Pindar was famous for this 3-letter type of poem
an ode
Cambodia
Thailand
"Aseptic", or "incapable of producing offspring"
sterile
Wow, that's so weird--I was just thinking about this word for a striking occurrence of 2 events at 1 time
coincidence
Savor the difference, girls; there are more of these receptors in a woman's mouth than in a man's
taste buds
As you might guess, Anselm Hollo's poem "5 & 7 & 5" is in this form
haiku
Egypt
Libya
"The partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other"
eclipse
This college degree is total B.S.
Bachelor of Sciences
Digestion happens in the small one of these, which is linked to the stomach, & in the large one that comes next
intestine
Many Greek & Latin epic poems open with an invocation to one of these goddesses
the Muses
Lesotho
South Africa
"A flock of geese when not flying"
a gaggle
These household pests targeted by Raid have lived on earth for 250 million years
cockroaches
This, skin drying & cracking due to cold & wind, can affect wrists & foreheads too, but lips seem to get it worst
chapping
Each line of a sonnet typically contains 5 of these metrical feet
iambs
Afghanistan
Iran
"Fruitless", or "showing excessive pride in one's appearance"
vain
It's the last of the "5 stages of grief"
acceptance
These 2 folds of tissue vibrate like strings to produce sound when you talk
vocal chords
Sometimes used as a mnemonic device, an abecedarian poem is marked by adherence to this
the alphabet
Tunisia
Algeria
"An animal having four feet", used of mammals
From the Latin for "to cook together", it means to devise or contrive
concoct
Babies have flat feet; the bones in the middle of the foot gradually rise to form this
an arch