AFRO-ASIAN POETRY

A type praise poem to honor or criticise kings.

• Political Poems

• Invocative Poetry

• Panegyric

• Elegies

Poems especially performed by women to mourn the dead.

• Elegies

• Religious and Divinatory Verses

• Epics

• Funeral Dirges

Which of the options below are NOT a part of African Poetry?

• Political Poems

• Epic Poetry

• Songs and Lyric Poems

• Panegyric

This poetry is used in spiritual ritual and ceremonies.

• Religous and Divinatory Verses

• Epic Poetry

• Songs and Lyric Poems

• Funeral Dirges

___ is one example of Songs and Lyric Poems.

Consists a series of praise expressions that highlight the qualities of people, dieties, objects, or natural elements.

• Epics

• Religious and Divinatory Verses

• Invocative Poetry

• Political Poems

Poems expressing sorrow for the dead or loss.

• Elegies

• Funeral Dirges

• Panegyric

• Tanka

Long narrative poems recounting heroic deeds and cultural myths.

• Epics

• Epic Poetry

• Political Poems

• Elegies

Political Poems ___

• praise poem to honor or criticise kings.

• used in spiritual ritual and ceremonies.

• comment on leadership, justice, and societal issues.

• consists a series of praise expressions that highlight the qualities of people, dieties, objects, or natural elements.

a 3 line poem with 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

• Tanka

• Haiku

• Shi

• Sijo