Poetry Types Of Poems

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

A long poem that tells a story-rhyme

Question 2

Dramatic monologue

Answer 2

Word of a single speaker- their personality

Question 3

Elegy

Answer 3

This is a particular type of lyric that is written to mourn the passing of something or someone

Question 4

Epic

Answer 4

Long poem- tells story- narrative poem

Question 5

Epitaph

Answer 5

Poems about the dead- on tombstone

Question 6

Epigram

Answer 6

Short- witty poems- announcement about something- usually written as a couplet

Question 7

Free verse

Answer 7

No regular pattern- experiment with words

Question 8

Lyric

Answer 8

Intense feeling and emotion- have rhythm and rhyme

Question 9

Narrative

Answer 9

A poem that tells a story

Question 10

Parody

Answer 10

A mockery of another piece of literature-copies style

Question 11

Pastoral

Answer 11

Set in the countryside- unrealistic, idealistic notion of country living

Question 12

Sonnet

Answer 12

14 line lyric written in iambic pentameter-follow a rigid rhyme scheme

Question 13

Ode

Answer 13

Lyric-written about a serious topic and is very dignified, if not stately, in tone and style