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A poem in this language describes three "half-men," of whom "one whistles, another meows, a third snivels." A cycle in this language begins with the lines "No foreign sky protected me, / no stranger's wing shielded my face" before describing waiting in a line for "seventeen months." (20[2]0[1])The (20[1])"laughing cockroaches" (20[1])on the top (20[1])lip (20[5])of a politician (20[4]0[1])are described (20[3])in an (20[1])(*) "Epigram" in this language (10[2])by (10[1])Osip Mandelstam (10[3])("OH-sip MAN-dul-shtam"). The question (0[1])"Can you (10[1])describe this?" (10[1])is asked in "Instead of a Preface," part (10[1])of a cycle in this language by an acmeist ("ACK-me-ist") poet titled Requiem. (10[1])This was the most-spoken (10[1])language (10[1])of a country which, in 1934, required poets to use socialist realism. For 10 points, (10[2])name this language used by Anna Akhmatova (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

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