Understanding Terminology That Describes Classical Poetry - CLEP Humanities

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A poem that is a lamentation for the dead is called                     .

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One of the oldest and most consistently written kinds of poem is an elegy, a work that is dedicated to the memory of a recently deceased person. An elegy can take on almost any poetic form, such as a sonnet, a cinquain, or any other specific kind of poem. Elegies were written by the ancient Greeks and Romans and continue to be written by modern poets.

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