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media type="custom" key="5857149" Natalie Merchant sings from her new album, //Leave Your Sleep.// Lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry pair with her unmistakable voice for a performance that brought the TED audience to its feet.

= =Poems Out Loud Literary Terms= = [|Allegory] [|Alliteration] [|Allusion] [|Amplification] [|Anagram] [|Analogy] [|Anaphora] [|anastrophe] [|Anthropomorphism] [|Animal] [|Antithesis] [|Aphorism] [|Apostrophe/Authorial Intrusion] [|Archetype] [|Assonance] [|Asyndeton] [|Bibliomancy] [|Bildungsroman] [|Cacophony] [|Caesura] [|Characterization] [|Chiasmus] [|Circumlocution] [|Conflict] [|Connotation] [|Consonance] [|Denotation] [|Deus ex Machina] [|Diction] = [|Ekphrastic] [|Epilogue] [|Epithet] [|Euphemism] [|Euphony] [|Faulty Parallelism] [|Flashback] [|Foil] [|Foreshadowing] [|Hyperbation] [|Hyperbole] [|Imagery] [|Internal Rhyme] [|Inversion] [|Irony] [|Juxtaposition] [|Kennings] [|Malapropism] [|Metaphor] [|Metonymy] [|Motif] [|Mood] [|Negative Capability] [|Nemesis] [|Onomatopoeia] [|Oxymoron] [|Paradox] [|Periphrasis] [|Periodic Structure] [|Personification] [|Point of View] [|Plot] [|Polysyndeton] [|Portmanteau] [|Prologue] [|Puns] [|Rhyme Scheme] [|Rhythm & Rhyme] [|Satire] [|Setting] [|Simile] [|Spoonerism] [|Stanza] [|Stream of Consciousness] [|Syllepsis] [|Symbol] [|Synecdoche] [|Synesthesia] [|Syntax] [|Theme] [|Tone] [|Tragedy] [|Understatement] [|Verisimilitude] [|Verse]