What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
Correct Answer :
A. The Homeric epic
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Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
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Hyperboles
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Onomatopoeia
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Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
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The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
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Epics
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Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
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4
1
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Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Mary Oliver
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
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an character
an address
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William Carlos Williams
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Gerard Manly Hopkins
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italian
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