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Title

Humanities 101

Description

Chapter 6 Ancietn Greece

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Subject

History

Level

Undergraduate 1

Created

03/08/2010

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catharsis

Definition

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idyll

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a short descriptive poem describing rural life.

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octave

Definition

in music, the interval between two notes of the same name, twelve semitones apart; in poetry, a stanza of eight lines.

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irony

Definition

a literary device in which the implication of the words is the opposite of their literal meaning.