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A haiku is traditionally a Japanese poem consisting of three short lines that do not rhyme. This is the number of syllables in each line:
What is a 5,7,5?
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El Señor de las Moscas
What is Lord of the Files? by William Goldin
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The homeowner hears a cat's crying sound?
What is meow?
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What city is associated with Grunge Music?
What is Seattle?
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. ..... minded, ..... sandwich, ..... sesame? (4)
What is open?
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This type of poem has 14 lines, each with 10 syllables, and has famously compared thee to a summer's day.
What is a sonnet?
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William S.
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Mujercitas
What is Little Women? Louisa May Alcott
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The wingless insect is found on Inspector Clouseau.
What is a Louse?
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This album catapulted Nirvana to #1 on the music charts in 1991.
What is Nevermind? 
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..... ball, ..... club, ..... course? (4)
What is golf?
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This is a sad poem, generally about someone's death, for example: "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden
What is an elegy?
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La Guerra y la Paz
What is War and Peace?
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Alter Archangel?
What is change?
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Voted the ninth-best ballad of all time by readers of "Rolling Stone" this Pearl Jam song includes the lyrics: "And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds-of what was everything".
What is Black?
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..... shooter, ..... tongued, ..... witted (5)
What is sharp?
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This type of poem has 5 lines and is usually bawdy. (aabba)
There was a young sailor named Bates
Who danced the fandango on skates.
But a fall on his tuchus
Has rendered him nutless,
And practically useless on dates
What is a limerick?
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La Uvas De La Ira
What is The Grapes of Wrath? John Steinbeck
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Discontinue the ordainment of St Christopher?
What is stop?
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This Nirvana member went on to be the lead singer of the band Foo Fighters.
Who is Dave Grohl?
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... Bighorn, ..... Corporal, ..... John, ..... Rock (6)
What is Little?
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This is a very long poem, usually about a hero or a great adventure. The Iliad and Odyssey are classic examples.
What is an epic?
The Homeric Poems – The Iliad (~800 BCE)
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Cien Años de Soledad
What is 100 years of Solitude? Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The distinguished celebrity arrives from Costa Rica.
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These two Grunge legends performed a duet on the hit song HungerStrike in 1991 as part of the supergroup Temple of the Dog
Who are Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell?
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. ..... down, ..... duster, ..... joint, ..... under? (6)