Pocket Anthology 1-11

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Oral Tradition

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poems that are performed, passed down from generation to generation

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dramatic situation

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Who is speaking to whom under what circumstances?
background, setting, speaker, and circumstances

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occasional verse

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a poem that is written about or for an important event

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persona

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speaker of a poem

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confessional poetry

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a candid form of autobiographical poetry

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narrator

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third-person voice

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auditor

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the person or persons spoken to in a poem

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apostrophe

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nonhuman, inanimate, or abstract thing directly addressed

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epigraph

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a brief explanatory statement or quotation

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dedication

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explains the setting

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genres

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separate categories delineated by distinct style, form, and content

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lyric poetry

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brief poems that were meant to be sung or chanted

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epigram

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short, satricial lyric usually aimed at a specific person

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elegy

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lyric on the occasion of a death

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ode

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long lyric in elevated language on a serious theme

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narrative poetry

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poetry whose main function is to tell a story

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epic

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long narrative poem about the exploits of a hero

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folk epics

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epics for public recitation and in oral form and anonymously authored

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literary epics

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products of known authors who wrote their poems for publication

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ballad

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short narrative with song-like qualities

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folk ballads

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ballads that come from the oral tradition and anonymously authored

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art/literary ballads

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conscious imitations of the ballad style by later poets, generally more sophisticated than fold ballads in technique

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realistic narratives

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medium length poems popular since the early 19th century, "poetic novels" or "short stories in verse."

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dithyrambic poetry

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poem composed to be chanted at religious rituals by a chorus, the forerunner of tragedy

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dramatic poetry

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poetry in which persona is usually an invented character. The poem is presented as a speech or dialogue.

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dramatic monologue

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speech for a single character

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dialogue poetry

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dramatic poetry in which two personae speak alternately

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débat

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a mock-debate dialogue poem, originated in the Middle Ages