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| 118571717 | Narrative | stress story and action | |
| 118571718 | Lyric | stress emotion and song | |
| 118571719 | Epic | long narrative poems that record the adventures of a hero whose exploits are important to the history of a nation | |
| 118571720 | Ballads | a popular type of narrative poetry | |
| 118571721 | Folk ballads | extra-ordinary events evoked in direct, simple language, and scant characterization that contain repeated lines and stanza in refrain, swift action with an occasional surprise ending | |
| 118571722 | Literary ballads | imitate the folk ballad by adhearing to its basic conventions (repeated lines, etc.) but are more polished stylistically and more self-conscious in their use of poetic techniques | |
| 118571723 | Romance | a type of narrative poem in which adventure is a central feature; these poems tend to be complex, with surpirsing and even magical actions as common | |
| 118571724 | Epigram | a brief witty poem that is often satirical | |
| 118571725 | Elegy | a lament for the dead | |
| 118571726 | Ode | a long stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form | |
| 118571727 | Aubade | a love lyric expressing complaint that dawn means the speaker must part from his lover | |
| 118571728 | Sonnet | condenses into 14 lines an expression of emotion or an articularion of idea according to one of two basic patterns: the Italian (or Petrachan) and the English (or Shakespearean) | |
| 118572977 | Italian sonnet | composed of an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet | |
| 118572978 | Shakespearean sonnet | composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line couplet | |
| 118572979 | Sestina | a lyric form that consists of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line conclusion or envoy; this form requires a strict pattern of repetition of six key words that end the lines of the first stanza | |
| 118572980 | Villanelle | a lyric form that relies heavily on repetition an dis composed of five three-line tercets and a final four-line quatrain; its singular feature is the way its first and third lines repeat throughout the poem--the entire first line reappears as the final line of the second and fourth tercets, and again as the third line of the third and fifth tercets and as the concluding line of the poem |
