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    Postmodernism and the Future of Literature During the 19th and early 20th, Western world experienced numerous historical events and influential changes, including the Word Wars and technological revolutions. These phenomenons affected the society at large, including in the aspect of art and literature. Literary historians often classified literature from late 19th century until the end of World War II as modernism and literature after World War II as postmodernism. Although there are no explicit

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    Rhyme

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    Rhyme Plan introduction 1. Definition and function of rhyme. 2. History. 3. Types of rhyme. 4. Conclusion. 5. Addition. 1. Definition and function of rhyme. Rhyme is the correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another. Rhyme is used by poets and occasionally by prose writers to produce sounds appealing to the reader’s senses and to unify and establish a poem’s stanzaic form. Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar terminal

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    the glory a man receives in war. If a hero like Achilles or Hector were mentioned to someone today, chances are, the person would know who the hero was. This is how immortality through Kleos works. When the poet Gaius Valerius Catullus describes how he wishes for his poems to last for many generations, even when he has long since passed, he is explaining that, through his poetry,

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    Quintus Horatius Flaccus

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    The poet Horace is how the English knew him, but his birth name is Quintus Horatius Flaccus, he was born in Italy in the little town of Venusia near the border of Apulia and Luciana, whence likes to describes himself as "Lucanus an Apulus anceps " man on December 8, 65 B.C. An important difference to annotate is Horace’s father was an Italian freedman (a former slave who has been released from slavery), but he did not get to experience that life style. For he was born free. Horace expresses how his

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