Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary conscious state. In contrast, nonstate theories see hypnosis as a form of imaginative role-enactment.
tercet. n. 1. (Poetry) a group of three lines of verse that rhyme together or are connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of three lines. [C16: from French, from Italian terzetto, diminutive of terzo third, from Latin tertius ].
Five Line Poetry Forms. A Quintain can also be an object of beauty,such as when two lovers use it to converse as in a Tanka or a Cinquain and combined as a series of poems. It can be dramatic as Coleridge's use of it in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Philip Larkin's Home is so sad.