Poetry Types /Poetry Titles

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• Epic

• a short narrative poem that imitates an epic tale in a comical way

• Narrative

• a poem that tells a story

• Tale Tale

• a song or songlike poem that tells a story, usually about a tragedy, love, or adventure

• Ballad

• a long narrative poem with heightened language that tells the story of an heroic character

• Mock Epic

• an exaggerated, farfetched story that is obviously untrue but told as though it was factual; NOT A POEM, ACTUALLY!

Match the following

• Free Verse

• a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story

• Ode

• a fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter

• Lyric

• a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died

• Sonnet

• A lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, celebrating a person or thing

• Elegy

• Poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme

Match the following

• "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

• Sonnet

• "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

• Mock Epic

• "Paul Revere's Ride"

• Narrative

• "Ode to Thanks"

• Ode

• "Casey at the Bat"

• Ballad

Match the following

• "O Captain!, My Captain!"

• Free Verse

• "I Hear America Singing"

• Epic

• "Beowulf"

• Ballad

• "The Dyin' Cowboy"

• Elegy

• "Valentine for Ernest Mann"

• Lyric