ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A poem is “a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty and sound and are carefully arranged, often in short lines which rhyme.” What makes a poem an EPIC POEM?
A
it’s rhyme scheme
B
that it is long and has heroic deeds
C
it has a religious theme
D
that it uses both vernacular and dialectal language
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A poem is a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty and sound and are carefully arranged, often in short lines which rhyme.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lines of poems are often organized into stanzas, or verses, which are denominated by the number of lines included. Thus a collection of two lines is a couplet (or distich), three lines a triplet (or tercet), four lines a quatrain, and so on.

Detailed explanation-3: -Simply put, diction refers to word choice and is intimately related to imagery and figures of speech because a poet chooses a word to achieve a certain sensory, emotional, or intellectual effect.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, “making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning.

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