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1. www.britannica.com › topic › BeowulfBeowulf | Summary, Poem, Characters, Monster, Analysis ...

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   3 days ago · Beowulf, heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. It deals with events of the early 6th century and is believed by some to have been composed in the 8th century. Learn more about Beowulf in this article.

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2. en.chinaculture.org › library › 2008-01Collection of Chinese Ballads - Chinaculture.org

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   5 days ago · Collection of Chinese Ballads mainly fall into the following categories according to its contents and functions: work ballads, political ballads, ritual ballads, love ballads, ballads of daily life, historical or legendary ballads, as well as Children's songs and rhymes.

3. oxfordre.com › literature › displayFolklore in the United States | Oxford Research Encyclopedia ...

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   1 day ago · The Continuity and Construction of Folklore. Popularly, many people think of folklore as stories, speech, beliefs, dances, and songs passed through generations, often with the implication that this kind of learning and expression lodged outside of ivory towers is alternately time-honored or faddish, poetic or crude, wise or mistaken, and either common or esoteric knowledge.

4. www.britannica.com › art › folk-musicFolk music - Traditional, Regional, Oral | Britannica

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   4 days ago · A few tune types are found throughout the European culture area, and textual types (such as ballad stories) are more widely distributed than tune types. Each country, however, tends to have a repertory of its own, with stylistic features as well as tunes that are not shared with neighbors.

5. www.britannica.com › biography › Rabindranath-TagoreRabindranath Tagore | Biography, Poems, Short Stories, Nobel ...

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   4 days ago · Most of his finest short stories, which examine “humble lives and their small miseries,” date from the 1890s and have a poignancy, laced with gentle irony, that is unique to him (though admirably captured by the director Satyajit Ray in later film adaptations).

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6. www.coursehero.com › POETRY-GUIDELINES-GRADE-10pdfGuide to Analyzing Poetry: Themes, Styles & Tone | Course Hero

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   2 days ago · TONE The tone refers to the poet’s attitude or feelings. It is used to convey his/her emotions and to set the mood of the poem. It is established through the choice of words, the imagery, or the structure of the poem. The tone can vary within a poem. e.g. sarcastic, bitter, joyful, frustrated, melancholic.

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   What are the different types of Chinese ballads?

   • Collection of Chinese Ballads mainly fall into the following categories according to its contents and functions: work ballads, political ballads, ritual ballads, love ballads, ballads of daily life, historical or legendary ballads, as well as Children's songs and rhymes.

   Collection of Chinese Ballads - Chinaculture.org

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   What is a political ballad?

   • Political ballads are songs composed by the people based on their own life experiences and political status and reflect their general views and attitudes toward some political events, measures, situations or politicians. Therefore they can be criticisms, sarcasms, eulogies or mixed pieces.

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   What is collection of Chinese ballads?

   • Collection of Chinese Ballads includes an immense variety of folk ballads collected from different regions and ethnicities of China after May 4th Cultural Movement, 1919. Focusing on new collections, the book does not include the ones already recorded by ancient Chinese works or works before May 4th Movement.

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   Why are some songs called 'Broadside Ballads'?

   • These songs, which might qualify as a predecessor of the “popular music” genre, were usually called “broadside ballads,” because they were printed on large sheets along with advertisements and sold on the streets.

   Folk music - Traditional, Regional, Oral | Britannica

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8. bond.libguides.com › english › fiction-short-storiesLibrary Research Guides: English: Fiction - short stories

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   3 days ago · In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.