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, Elegy - correct answers A song or poem expressing sorrow or
lamentation, especially for one who is dead. A pensive or reflective
poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy
Pastoral Elegy - correct answers song or poem that contains
expressions of grief a prayer to a muse, followed by a reference to the
unkindness of death and the acceptance of nature's law
Allusion - correct answers a play on words, a mocking reference directly
or indirectly to a person, place, or thing, or piece of literature used to
establish reader connection
Allegory - correct answers A story or visual image that has an obscure
meaning hidden behind a literal, more visable meaning
Personification - correct answers A figure of speech that gives animals,
abstract ideas, and lifeless objects human characteristics.
, Irony - correct answers The use of words to convey an idea other than
the one expressed; A subtle human perception of inconsistency in
which a stated idea or event is undermined by its context. There are
four types: structural, situational, verbal and dramatic.
Epic - correct answers A long narrative poem containing many themes
of adventure, history, love or tragedy and supernatural elements.
(Kinds of epics include folk, art, primary, secondary)
Folk Epic - correct answers A long narrative poem that originated via
oral tradition.
Art Epic - correct answers A long narrative poem that uses the same
form of the folk epic while incorporating difference in phrase, style,
length
Blank Verse - correct answers poetic form that contains un-rhymed
lines of iambic pentameter
Oxymoron - correct answers A figure of speech that combines two
contradictory ideas in a paradox.
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