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QueenPhoenix · 05-18-2011, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by TwistedHearts

Just before leaving, Zara decided to turn back and approached the professor. "Professor, I was just curious. About the homework. The poem we're gonna make is a paragram?" She asked, her left eyebrow raised in confusion. "That means...like the poem is a wordplay? Changing letter into.. Ahh, I don't know how to put it into words. But I just don't get it." She admitted, a slight frown on her face.

Okay, so everyone was out, right? She could lock up? But just as Josephina was about to do that, a young Gryffindor first year turned back around and asked a question. Startled slightly, she smiled at the sweet little lion. "Yes... Sort of. We're calling it a paragram because of the fact that the sums of each line should be equal ... or some sort of pattern the total values of each line," Fina explained, hoping this clarified it some. "So it IS a poem, mostly. But it's a paragram because the numerical values of each line is pertinent."

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