Narrative Poetry
Tells a story, using elements such as plot, characters, and setting
Lyric Poetry
Has a musical quality and expresses the feelings of a single speaker
Epic Poetry
A long narrative poem that tells about a larger-than-life hero
Ballad
A songlike narrative poem that often deals with adventure and romance
Ode
A long, formal lyric poem
Free verse
Poetry that does not use a regular meter
Haiku
A Japanese verse form that consists of seventeen syllables arranged into three unrhymed lines
Limerick
A numerous five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme: aabba
Rhythm
Is a poem’s pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
Is it’s rhythmical pattern; it is measured in feet or single units of stressed and unstressed syllables
Rhyme
Is the repetition of a sound at the ends of near y words
End rhyme
Rhyming words appear at the end
Symbol
An object, a person, an animal, or a place that represents something beyond it’s literal meaning
Symbolism
The use of symbols, can involve a certain object, setting, or image.
Allusion
A reference to a well-known person, place, thing, event, or literary work. Like a symbol an allusion means something more than itself
