cinquain
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keɪn noun
1.
a group of five.
2.
Prosody.
a.
a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
b.
any stanza of five lines.
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| —n | |
| a stanza of five lines | |
| [C18 (in the sense: a military company of five): from French cinq five, from Latin quinque; compare | |
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Cinquain
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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Word Origin & History
cinquain
"collection of five," 1711, from Fr. cinquain, from cinq "five" (see five). Originally in Eng. of military orders of battle; of 5-lined stanzas of verse from 1882.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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cinquain
a five-line stanza. The American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914), applied the term in particular to a five-line verse form of specific metre that she developed. Analogous to the Japanese verse forms haiku and tanka, it has two syllables in its first and last lines and four, six, and eight in the intervening three lines and generally has an iambic cadence. An example is her poem "November Night": Listen With faint dry soundLike steps of passing ghosts,the leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the treesAnd fall
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Example sentences
Have each pair use their interview responses to create a cinquain poem.
Select an topic and ask the students to write cinquain or haiku poems about it.
In the center of this snowflake, write a cinquain about winter wildlife.
Use letters to describe one of the animal pelts or to write a cinquain poem about one of the pelts.
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