Forms of Poetry

Question 1

Epic Poetry

Answer 1

Poems that deal with heros with adventures. Usually written by Homer and other Greeko-Roman Poets.

Question 2

Epistolary Poems

Answer 2

Poems written/read as letters

Question 3

Ballad

Answer 3

Poems that generally follow a rhyme scheme and a meter. Mostly on subjects like love, death, and religion.

Question 4

Elegies

Answer 4

Mourning Poems

Question 5

Odes

Answer 5

Poems that used to be songs

Question 6

Pastoral Poems

Answer 6

Poems that talk about/praise nature

Question 7

Epigrams

Answer 7

Very short poems (one or two lines) that throw a good umph/punch to it, often ends with a satirical twist or memorable statement. Almost like a quote

Question 8

Limericks

Answer 8

Also short poems, but more on the humorous side. (4 lines of iambic diameter and last line of iamic trimester)

e.g. hickery dickory dock dick whatever that is

Question 9

Sonnets

Answer 9

14 lines of iambic pentameter. Three quatrains, fourth couplet.