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| a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
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A three-line poem with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
Haiku, a poem
five beats, then seven, then five
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An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero.
The Icelandic epic took all night to recite. |
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A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.
Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse.
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A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.
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| a pair of lines with rhyming end words |
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| A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation |
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| A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence |
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| a work of prose fiction, longer than a short story |
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| A work of fiction that is shorter than a novel |
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| A feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. |
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| A story of a great but unknown age which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient story of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin. |
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A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events. Also historical legend.
The legend of Troy was discovered to have historical basis. |
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| a story passed on by word of mouth rather than by writing, and thus partly modified by successive re‐tellings before being written down or recorded. The category includes legends, fables, jokes, tall stories, and fairy tales |
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| A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy ch |
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| a narrative technique whereby a main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story—or for surrounding a single story within a story |
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In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
A very common, almost defining feature of satire is its strong vein of irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. |
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stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, about migration to Iceland, and of feuds between Icelandic families. They were written in the Old Norse language, mainly in Iceland.
The texts are epic tales in prose, often with stanzas or whole poems in alliterative verse embedded in the text, of heroic deeds of days long gone, tales of worthy men, who were often Vikings, sometimes Pagan, sometimes Christian. The tales are usually realistic, except legendary sagas, sagas of saints, sagas of bishops and translated or recomposed romances. They are sometimes romanticised and fantastic, but always dealing with human beings one can understand. |
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