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| | Poem |
 | | In poetry, it is the connotations and the 'baggage' that words carry (the weight of words) that are most important. |
 | | And there is, of course, narrative poetry, not to mention dramatic poetry, both of which are used to tell stories and so resemble novels and plays. |
 | | By contrast, the chief device of Biblical poetry in ancient Hebrew was parallelism, a rhetorical structure in which successive lines reflected each other in grammatical structure, sound structure, notional content, or all three; a verse form that lent itself to antiphonal or call and response performance. |
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