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Teachers' Resource Web Paradise Lost: Modes and Genres Harold Toliver, UCI Emeritus I. Modes Lyric aubade elegy (apobaterion) ode proem, invocation love sonnet creation songs and hymns (Books 7-8) Dramatic: dialogue and dialectic debate soliloquy apostrophe Narrative: autobiography chronicle apocalyptic prophetic typological Descriptive: heroic, romantic, pastoral, etc. encyclopedic (hexaemeral) Rhetoric: forensic (judicial), deliberative (advisory), epideictic (ceremonial) II. Kinds allegory tragedy comedy satire and parody heroic pastoral georgic romance |