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poetry was the earliest literature of the ancient peoples such as the

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Egyptians

Sumerians

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it is the oldest of the arts

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poetry

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Celebrates the adventures of heroes

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epics

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recounting the history of the race in the dim past

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ballads

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expressing the joys, sorrows, and fears of the people

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songs

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charm of early poetry

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music and ideas it conveyed

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Fundamentally a thought or a feeling expressed in rhythmic and colorful language

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poem

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in times of war, songs and rallying cries expresses the

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passions of the people

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Elements of poem

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Sense creates the poem
Poetry is compact language
Rhythm is the rise and fall in the stress of syllables
Rhyme refers to similarity of sounds of words
Meter is observed in traditional verses
Figurative language is important in poetry

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rhyme used at the end of the lines

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end rhyme

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rhyme within or among the lines

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internal rhyme

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the life removed writer

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luis de leon

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he was a spanish poet and mystic who taught theology

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luis de leon

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uproar

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state of excitement

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cunning

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manipulative

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flatterer’s tongue

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imitate people

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solace

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to give comfort to misfortune

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ode on the poets writer

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john keats

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short poem usually melodious which expresses feelings or emotions

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lyric poetry

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spring and fall: to a young child writer

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gerald manley hopkins

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fourteen lines; the lines must be iambic pentameter and the lines must rhyme in s fixed pattern.

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sonnet

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two main kinds of lyrics

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elegy

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formal poem having a complex stanza pattern and is addressed to an object or an idea

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ode

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a silken tent writer

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robert frost

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ode to winter writer

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thomas campbell

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it is a poem mourning someone’s death

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elegy

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tells a story in poetic form

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narrative poem

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the charcoal burner’s son writer

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erik gustaf geijer

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restate the sense of the poem in simple prose

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paraphrase

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o lovely fishermaiden writer

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heinrich heine

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rise and fall in the stress of the syllable

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rhythm

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implies a certain complexity

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pattern

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basis of a poem

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rhythm

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the erl king writer

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johann wolfgang von goethe

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he was a many-sided genius

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johann wolfgang von goethe

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remarkable lyric poets of germany

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heinrich heine

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he was a swedish poer, historian and professor of history

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erik gustaf geijer

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a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables that is used consistently throughout the poem

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metrical poem

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each unit of the oattern within a line of metrical poetry

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foot

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combination of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables across the line and usually throughout the poem

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foot

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two beats, first unaccented and the second accented

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iambic foot

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two beats, the first accented and the second unaccented

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trochee

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two accented syllables. Serious passages.

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spondee

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three beats, the first two unaccented and the third accented

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anapest

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three beats, the first accented and the other two unaccented

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dactyl

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pronounce with little or no stress

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unaccented

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stressed in pronunciation

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accented syllable

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more strong than time writer

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victor hugo

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he was a romantic writer

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victor hugo

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the call writer

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thomas osbert mordaunt

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annabel lee writer

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edgar allan poe

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it occurs many times within the line

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internal rhyme

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repetition of the same consonant sounds

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alliteration

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repetition of vowel sounds

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assonace

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use of words ehose sounds suggest yheir mesning

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onomatopoeia

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repetition of a line or ofseveral lines at regular intervals throughout a poem

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refrain

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repetition of a single word or a brief phrase

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repetition

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a workingman asks questions as he reads writer

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bertolt brecht

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