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  2. List of long poems in English - Wikipedia

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    This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in literary academia.

  3. The Long Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction by John Steinbeck. Most of the stories appeared originally in literary periodicals, and were first collected by Viking Press in 1938. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  4. Shaggy dog story - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending. [1] Shaggy-dog stories play upon the audience's preconceptions of joke-telling. The audience listens to the story with certain expectations, which are either simply not met or met in some entirely unexpected manner. [2]

  5. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    Narative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.

  6. Supertoys Last All Summer Long - Wikipedia

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    "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" is a science fiction short story by Brian Aldiss, first published in the UK edition of Harper's Bazaar, in its December 1969 issue. [1] The story deals with humanity in an age of intelligent machines and of the aching loneliness endemic in an overpopulated future where child creation is controlled.

  7. Long poem - Wikipedia

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    A long poem often functions to tell a "tale of the tribe," or a story that encompasses a whole culture's values and history. Ezra Pound coined the phrase, referring to his own long poem The Cantos. The long poem's length and scope can contain concerns of a magnitude that a shorter poem cannot address.

  8. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Epic – a very long narrative poem, often written about a hero or heroine and their exploits. Epic poem – a lengthy story of heroic exploits in the form of a poem. Essay - a short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or point; Fable – a didactic story, often using animal characters who behave like people.

  9. List of world folk-epics - Wikipedia

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    Samak-e Ayyar, Samak-e Ayyar is an epic ancient Persian romantic folklore story; Nart saga, includes the stories and mythological epics and folklore of the Iranic Ossetian people; Hamzanama, A long popular Islamic prose epic, which contains more than 45,000 pages in the Urdu language version; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic