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| A short songlike poem, telling something that happened |
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| a poem whose main purpose is to tell a story. |
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| a kind of comic poetry that conveys a message |
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| choice of words and/or grammatical constructions |
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| The attitude of the author |
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| an apparent contradiction. ("He who would save his life must lose it" or "The child is father of the man.") |
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| stresses at regular intervals |
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| a pattern of stressed (accented) sounds in English poetry |
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| the use of words that imitate sounds |
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| English poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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