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Digging
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Seamus Heaney
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Birches
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Robert Frost
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Plath
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Daddy -
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Siren Song
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Margaret Atwood
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Dream Deferred
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Langston Hughes
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My Last Duchess
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Robert Browning
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
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Adrienne Rich
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The Second Coming
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WIlliam Butler Yeats
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Tuesday, June 4th, 1991
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Billy Collins
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I Hear America Singing
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Walt Whitman
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To An Athlete Dying
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A. E. Houseman
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The Seven Ages of Man
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William Shakespeare
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The Winter Evening Settles Down
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T. S. Eliot
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Hardy
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Convergence of the Twain - Cosmic Irony - in the solitude of the sea... and consummation comes and jars hemispheres -
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Cummings
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In Just-- in just... far and wee
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Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
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E.E Cummings
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Hopkins
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Pied Beauty - Beauty is imperfection - glory be to god for dapple things... he fathers forth whose beauty is past change praise him
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
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William Shakespeare
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Donne
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The Flea - premarital sex - mark but this flea and mark in this.. will waste this fleas death took life from thee - baby
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Dylan Marlais Thomas
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Daddy
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Sylvia Plath
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The Highwayman
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Alfred Noyes
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Purple Cow
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Gelett Burgess
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Elinor Wylie
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Pretty Words
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Ex-Basketball Player
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John Updike
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The Raven
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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We Real Cool
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Those Winter Sundays
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Robert Hayden
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We Real Cool
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Cremation of Sam McGee
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Robert Service
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Emily Dickinson
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Success is Counted Sweetest
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john keats
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ode to a nightingale
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Blind Men and the Elephant
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John Godfrey Saxe
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William Butler Yeats
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the lake isle of innisfree
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William Wordsworth
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the world is too much with us
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Spondee
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rhyming couplets
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A
A
B
B
C
C
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figurative languagelitotes
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understatement
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Sound Devices
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Musical qualtites
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tercet or triplet
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(aaa)
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olfactory imagery
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smell and taste
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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persona
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noun1.a person.2.personae, the characters in a play, novel, etc.
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Prodigious
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inspiring wonder and admiration, marvelous
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ambiguity
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multiple meanings of a word
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assonance
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repetition of internal vowel sounds
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simile
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compares twounlike objectsusing like or as
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial constant sounds in neighboring words(rough and ready)
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italian sonnet
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an octave riming abbaabba +cdcdcd/cdecde
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prose
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ordinary or plain everyday language used in speech or writing with no patterns or rhymes
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personification
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giving human traits to non-living objects
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anaphora
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type of repetition, beginning of line
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Assonance (EX)
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repitition of vowel sounds.That dolphin torn, that gong tormented sea.
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Meter
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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
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sonnet
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romatic: 14 lines, 3 quatrains, 1 cuplet. iambic pintameter
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apostrophe
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a direct address to someone or something. in poetry, often addresses something not normally spoken to (e.g. "o mountain!"). in an apostrophe, a speaker may address an inanimate object, a dead or absent person, an abstract thing, or a spirit. often used to provide a speaker with means to articulate thoughts aloud.
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symbol
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word or image that signifies something other than what is literally represented
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consonance
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the repetition of similar consonant or syllable sounds in the word
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lyric poetry
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poetry which expresses the personl feelings or thoughts of its author, it is subjective and is also emotional, imaginative, and melodious
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enjambment
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poetic sentence which flows over more than one line
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stanza
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A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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-Makes up words
-alliteration and free verse
-sprung rhythm
-devotionals
called God- sir
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Applicable Level
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the literal level of the poem
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words that imitate sounds. Example: "swish".
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paradoxical situation
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figure of speach with a contradictory statement but true
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poetic license
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a poets freedom to use language creatively in order to create a certain mood or create special meaning
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Form
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The external pattern or shape of a poem
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anapestic
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foot of 3 syllables (2 unstressed, 1 stressed)
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irony
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the oppoiste of what is expected, a pointed contrast between reality and expectations
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dactyl
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a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter
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Epic
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Long narrative poem that tells a story of the deeds of gods or heroes; full of sentiment
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Allusion
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A Reference To A Person Place Or Thing
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rhyme
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the repetition of sounds at the end of words
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Repetition
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A sound, word, or phrase used more or once
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triplet
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A series of three lines that share the same rhyme.
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Metaphysical Conceit
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comparison used by John Dunn- 2 very different
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internal rhyme
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noun Prosody .1.a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
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Rhetorical Stress
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In natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing, the stressing of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure
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situational irony
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occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected
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sensory language
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writing that appeals to one or more of the senses
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Dramatic Irony
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A device in which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work
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Continuous Form
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That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning
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Rhyme Scheme: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Three quatrains and a couplet)
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bilge
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oil
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Couplet
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two lines
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knave
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dishonest person
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Denotation
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literal dictionary definition
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undeceive
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free from deception
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Figures of Speech:
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Imagery
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The Man He Killed
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Hardy
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Limerick
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5 lines Ireland AABBA
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quatrain
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a stanza of four lines
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ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
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Spenserian Sonnet
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symbolism
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Use of symbols to represent idea
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style
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the mode of expression in language
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Middle Diction
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Language that maintains correct language usage, but is less elevated that formal dictions; reflects the way most educated people speak.
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Similie
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compares two different things using "like" or "as"
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scansion
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The process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern.
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Theme
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A central message, concern, or purpose in a literary piece
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Free Verse
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No set meter of rhyme scheme
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Ballad
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A narrative poem that tells a storyUsually about love
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oxymoron
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Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. ex. jumboshrimp
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Villanelle
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A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
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Synecdoche
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a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole (field hands for manual laborers who work in agriculture)
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Trimeter
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three metrical feet per line of the poem
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Trochaic
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-u / -u (Double, double, toil and trouble)
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Satire
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The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it.
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imagery
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the use of vivid language to paint a picture
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Imagist poem
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a lyric that presents a single vivid picture in words.
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Sestina
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: A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter. Its six-line stanza repeats in an intricate and prescribed order the final word in each of the first six lines. After the sixth stanza, there is a three-line envoi, which uses the six repeating words, two per line.
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End Rhyme
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Rhyme which occurs at the ends of lines
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Fixed form
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Any form of poem in which that length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, villanelle, and so on
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What are the types of rhythm?
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Rising rhythm & falling rhythm.
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Single Word or Phrase
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the repetition of a word or phrase at random; it does not create a pattern(unlike anaphora or refrain) (more than once.)
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5
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pentameter
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images
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Pictures
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amorous
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showing love
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Diction
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word choice
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Limerick rules
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AABBA
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3 feet
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trimeter
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hyperbole
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extreme exaggeration
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Syntax
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order of words
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pun
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play on words
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In Memoriam
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Iambic tetrameter; abba
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tetrameter
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Four feet per line
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Some Like Poetry
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Wislawa Szymborska
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melody
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pleasing sounds in poetry
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tercet
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a 3 lined stanza
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maturus, matura, maturum
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early, developed, perfect
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lyric
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Short poem expressing innermost feelings or thoughts of a single speaker
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hexameter
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six feet in a line
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Ode
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exalting praise of one entity
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Cacophony
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combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds
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Tintern Abbey
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William Wordsworth (uncovered poem)
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imagination
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ability to form mental pictures
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haiku
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traditional form of Japanese poetry containing 3 lines and 17 syllables
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rhythm
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pattern of sounds, stressed and unsturessed
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Cadence
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A balancedm rhythmic flow of words.
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voice
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expression in spoken or written words
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dimeter
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workers earn it/spendthrifts burn it/ bankers lend it/ women spend it/ forgers fake it/ i could use it
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Cinquain
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Poetic forms using a 5-line pattern.
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exact rhyme
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the rhyming sounds are identical
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connotation
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the associations and added meanings surrounding a word that are not part of its literal meaning
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Antithesis
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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical sturctures; balancing or contrasting one thing against another for effect
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speaker
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the voice that speaks to us
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dissonance
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inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony.
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ABSTRACT POETRY
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WORDS THAT CAN'T EASILY BE DEFINED
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idiom
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an expression in which the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression
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End rhythm
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rhyme at the ends of lines
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perfect rhyme
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words that conventionally share all sounds following the word's last stressed syllable. Thus "tenacity" and "mendacity" rhyme. "Bun" and "Gun" perfectly rhyme, "kettle" and "metal" perfectly rhyme
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understatement
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a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
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metaphor
*to
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a figure of speech that indirectly compares two seeming unlike things
*startle the reader with the similarity
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analogy
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a comparison between two things that seem dissimilar in order to show ways in which they might be similar
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metaphor
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statement that says one thing is something else
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onomatopeia
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word that makes the sound it names
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Auditory
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formal name for the sense of hearing
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Sibilance
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Alliteration of the sound and letter 's' in a series of words.
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aphorism
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Examples: "Early bird gets the worm." "What goes around, comes around.." "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
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Extended Metaphor
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a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem
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auditory imagery
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words in a work that depict hearing
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stress
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greater amount of pressure put on a word
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Rhyme Scheme
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the pattern of rhyme in a poem
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dramatic dialogue
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narrative poem involving two or more speakers
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refrain
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a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song, the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at definite intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza (think song)
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caesura
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a pause within a line of verse, usually in the middle
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lyric?
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a short poem with one speaker that explains thoughts and feelings
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True Rhyme
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when words have the same ending sounds
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perosonification
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an animal, object or idea is given human form or characteristics
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symbolic act
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an action whose significance goes well beyond its literal meaning; acts often involve a primal or unconscious ritual element such as rebirth, purification, forgiveness, vengeance, or initiation
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rhythem
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the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
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by W.C. Williams1963Ekphrasis\"According to Brueghel\"\"a splash quite unnoiced this was Icarus drowning\"
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Context
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Noun- the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage
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Open Form (free verse)
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Doesn't attempt to follow established poetry pattern
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Anonymous Narration
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When the author is not in dirct spotlight and the reader is only allowed to understand and conceptualize what the author wants.
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feminine rhyme
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when last two syllables of a poem rhyme
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catalectic
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a missing short syllable at the end of a trochee or dactyl
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trochaic foot
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(/,v) a 2 syllable foot with the stress on the first syllable
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mending wall
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Frost: the poem about building a wall is a metaphor for building a traditional verse poem. Traditional verse is what one expects, so it's a good neighbor. Using verse, like iambic pentameter, is like mending the wall, while free verse destroys the wall. When you break the wall, you're being a bad poet. The lesson comes from the neighbor- sometimes the wall is better.
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9. internal rhyme
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rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. The following lines contain internal rhyme:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping. . suddenly there came a tapping . . . .
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masculine rhyme
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a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
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Dramatic Monologue
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A poem or speech in which a fictional character expresses his or her
thoughts and feelings within a developing situation.
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William Cullen Bryant
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The Father of American Poetry and a Romantic writer.
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IN FOG A CAT ACTS IN ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS EXCEPT
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MEWS
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a lyric poem of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter wit 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet. The 3 quatrains present a problem and the couplet presents a solution
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Shakespearian sonnet
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on his blindness / me thought i saw my late espoused wife
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milton
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Verse
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a line of a poem or a group of lines within a
long poem
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what is jimi hendrix comparing relationships to in the wind cries mary?
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gambling (sometimes you win, sometimes you lose)
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Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
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John Donne, Hymn To God My God, in My Sickness
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Look Lord, and find both Adams met in me;
As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face,
May the last Adam's blood my soul embrace.
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