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epic 史诗:a long narrative poem, grand in style, about herone in English verse, with five feet in a line, usually an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. It was probably introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer and certainly established by him in The Canterbury Tales.
image 意象
a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience. Typically, such a representation helps evoke the feelings associated with the object or experience itself. Many images are conveyed by figurative language. An image may be visual, olfactory, tactile, auditory, gustatory, abstract and kinaesthetic. The rose in Robert Burns’ poem “A Red, Red Rose” is a beautiful image.
   “Dramatic monologue”戏剧独白
 that is a lyric poem which reveals “ a soul in action” through the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation. The character is speaking to an identifiable but silent listener at a dramatic  monent in the speaker’s life. 
blank verse 无韵诗，素体诗
unrhymed iambic pentameter, the most widely used of English verse forms and usually used in English dramatic and epic poetry. William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is written in blank verse.
Sonnet is a verse form of fourteen lines, in English characteristically in iambic pentameter and most often in one of the two rhyme schemes: the Italian(or Petrarchan) or Shakespearean
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