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| ballad | a short narrative poem, usually sung, and most often arranged in quatrain stanzas of four lines each with a ryhme scheme either of abab or abcb, that tells of vivid events in a community, such as tales of love and death. |
| ballad | a type of oral and folk literature and are often "composed" over time by a whole community |
| descriptive structure | a type of poetic structure in which the main element is description |
| diction (latin- dictus) | "spoken things" Language or words. In literature the author's choice of words, or more widely to his choice of words, images, allusions and even sentence structure |
| dramatic structure | a type of poetic structure in which the dominant element is an address by the speaker to a listener |
| image (imagery) | a literary device that presents an object through a concrete, non literal, informing word picture |
| implied situation | the implied and understood- but not explicitly told- situation of the speaker in a poem |
| lyric poem | 3 a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a speaker |
| narrative poem | a poem that is aso a story, having at least one character and a plot |
| pastoral mode | a mode of poetry most often characterized by a mood of rustic pleasure I or sometimes longing or melancholy) and by certain settings and subjectsl; normally, an idyllic countryside wherein lovers (almost always shepherds and shepherdesses) enjoy a healthy, simple, natural lifestyle in small cottages or even in the open |
| repetitive structure | a type of poetic structure in which the main element is repetition, inluding repetition of phrases, refrains of lines, or even of whole stanzas |
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