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  ※narrative poetry  is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well

  Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.

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※poetry

one of the three major genres of imaginative literature, which has its origins in music and oral performance and is characterized by controlled patterns of rhythm and syntax (often using meter and rhyme); compression and compactness and an allowance for ambiguity; a particularly concentrated emphasis on the sensual, especially visual and aural, qualities and effects of words and word order; and especially vivid, often figurative language.

※verbal irony occurs when a word or expression in context means something different from, and usually the opposite of, what it appears to mean; when the intended meaning is harshly critical or satiric, verbal irony becomes sarcasm.

※mock epic is a form of satire in which epic language and conventions are used to depict characters, actions, and settings utterly unlike those in conventional epics, usually (though not always) with the purpose of ridiculing the social milieu or types of people portrayed in the poem. 

※ John Keats was an English Romantic. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets

※ The Great Gatsby

※mimesis is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.

※Beauty is truth,truth beauty

※Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in histories. 

※character is an imginary personge who acts, appears, or is referred to a literay work.

1. major (main) characters receive most attention
2. minor characters
3. flat characters are relatively simple, have a few dominant traits, and tend to be predictable.
4. round characters are complex and multifaceted and acr in a way that readers might not expect but accept as possible.
5. static characters
6. dynamic charaters
7. stock characters represent familiar types that recur frequently in literary works, especially of a particular genre.

※narrrtion broadly, the act of telling a story or recounting a narrative.

※Edith Wharton ------Roman Fever

She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927,1928 and 1930.