tanka
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kə noun, plural tan·kas, tan·ka. Prosody.
a Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the others.
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| —n , pl -kas, -ka | |
| a Japanese verse form consisting of five lines, the first and third having five syllables, the others seven | |
| [C19: from Japanese, from tan short + ka verse] | |
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Tanka
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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tanka
in literature, a five-line, 31-syllable poem that has historically been the basic form of Japanese poetry. The term tanka is synonymous with the term waka (q.v.), which more broadly denotes all traditional Japanese poetry in classical forms
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Have students create a tanka poem about something found in nature.
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