Describe and discuss elements of the song
What will be an ideal response?
• Unlike many songs that are heard on the radio in Oman, Diwan's lyrics for Batal al-Bab are "lacking in any nationalist content; rather the protagonist pleads, ‘Open the door, oh door keeper' and reminisces about the good ties with loved ones, who seem to be oblivious to his requests."
• Is composed in rhyming quatrains with each verse of two lines
• Each line has two hemistiches (half-line)
• The rhyme scheme is aaax, bbbx, cccx, etc.
• Formulaic composition may be among the techniques used by the poet
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In which medium are the depictions of Justinian and Theodora in San Vitale made?
a. panel painting b. low relief sculpture c. fresco d. mosaic e. freestanding sculpture
An image made after a plate has been destroyed is called a(n) ___________ print
A. stopping B. overdone C. cancellation D. after E. relief
Many Baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the
Renaissance. Counter-Reformation. Protestant Reformation. Enlightenment.