d is highly realistic. The tendency is to
humanize and to localize within the group the older myth and to develop
later legendary tales upon a naturalistic basis. Poetry, on the other
hand, develops set forms, plays with double meanings. Its character is
symbolic and obscure and depends for its style upon, artificial devices.

9. Common to each are certain sources of emotional Interest such as
depend upon a close interplay of ideas developed within an intimate
social group. In prose occur conventional episodes, highly elaborated
minor scenes, place names in profusion which have little to do with the
action of the story, repetitions by a series of actors of the same
incident in identical form, and in the dialogue, elaborate chants,
proverbial sayings, antithesis and parallelism. In poetry, the panegyric
proceeds by the enumeration of names and their qualities, particularly
place or technical names; by local and legendary allusions which may
develop into narrative or descriptive passages of some length; and by
eulogistic comparisons drawn from nature or from social life and often
elaborately developed. The interjectional expression of emotion, the
rhetorical question, the use of antithesis, repetition, wordplay (puns
and word-linking) and mere counting-out formulas play a striking part,
and the riddling element, both in the metaphors employed and in the use
of homonyms, renders the sense obscure.

PERSONS IN THE STORY

1. AIWOHI-KUPUA. A young chief of Kauai, suitor to Laie-i-ka-wai.

2. AKIKEEHIALE. The turnstone, messenger of Aiwohikupua.

3. AWAKEA. "Noonday." The bird that guards the doors of the sun.

4. HALA-ANIANI. A young rascal of Puna.

5. HALULU-I-KE-KIHE-O-KA-MALAMA. The bird who bears the visitors to the
doors of the sun.

6. HATUA-I-LIKI. "Strike-in-beating." A young chief of Kauai, suitor to
Laie-i-ka-wai.

7. HAUNAKA. A champion boxer of Kohala.

8. HINA-I-KA-MALAMA. A chiefess of Maui.

9. HULU-MANIANI. "Waving feather." A seer of Kauai.

10. IHU-ANU. "Cold-nose." A champion boxer of Kohala.

11. KA-ELO-I-KA-MALAMA. The "mother's brother" who guards the land of
Nuumealani.

12. KA-HALA-O-MAPU-ANA. "The sweet-scented hala." The youngest sister of
Aiwohikupua.

13. KAHAU-O-KAPAKA. The chief of Koolau, Oahu, father of Laie-i-ka-wai.

14. KAHOUPO 'KANE. Attendant upon Poliahu.

15. KA-ILI-O-KA-LAU-O-KE-KOA. "The-skin-of-the-leaf-of-the-koa (tree)."
The wife of Kauakahialii.

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