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It’s not Amharic, but the term for double meanings in this language’s poetry is analogized to “putting feather on our words” in Brandy McDougall’s books. A poet of many “name songs” in this language wrote a poem addressed to a lawn sprinkler while under house arrest. Slam poet Jamaica Osorio titled her most famous piece after this language’s “creation chant,” whose 16 “eras” begin with the “slime which (15[1])established the (15[1])earth,” proceed (15[1])through fish and birds, and end with a royal (*) genealogy. (10[1])This language’s word for sugar cane and the Japanese word for song, bushi, name a folk genre collected by Harry Urata. The epic Kumulipo was translated from this language by a 19th-century (10[1])monarch whose prolific output as a composer and poet (10[2])in this language (10[1])includes a song that repeats (10[1])“Farewell to thee, farewell (10[1])to (10[1])thee.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this language used by Lili‘uokalani. (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

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