At one point in the excerpt the narrator flicks his rifle clip to “rock and roll”. What does he mean by this?

Answer 1

this book defines

74 basic poetic forms, summarizes their histories, quotes examples

from noted poets, and offers professional tricks of the trade on how

to use each form. The book covers the following poetic forms:

abstract poem, acrostic, allegory, alliteration, alphabet poem,

assonance, Ballad, ballade, blank verse, blues poem, bout-rimes,

calligram, canto, canzone, cento, chant, cinquain, collaboration,

concrete poem, couplet, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epistle,

epithalamium, event poem, the foot, found poem, free verse, ghazal,

haiku, imitation, insult poem, light verse, limerick, the line, list

poem, lune, lyric, macaronis, madrigal, metaphor, nonsense poem,

occasional poem, ode, ottava rima, pantoum, parody, pastoral poem,

performance poem, projective verse, prose poem, quatrain, rap, renga,

rhyme, rhythm, ritual poem, rondeau, satire, senryu, sestina,

Skeltonic verse, Sonnet, spoonerism, the stanza, syllabic verse,

tanka, tercet, terza rima, triolet, villanelle, and word play.

Entries are cross-referenced, and a bibliography and list of cited

authors are included. (MM)