Chapter+9


 * Categories of Poetry**
 * **Narrative:** tells a story or relates a series of events that lead up to a climax
 * Ballad: a short, swift, stark narrative, simple in plot and with a catchy, infectious metrical pattern
 * Metrical Tale: like a full-length novel or short story in verse
 * Epic: characterized by its extreme length, elevated tone, and especially by the type of events it relates. An epic centers on a hero of superhuman proportions, both morally and physically, whose exploits are of great significance to a tribe, race, or nation
 * **Lyric:** a strongly unified form of poetry with content that is shaped toward the emotional focal point
 * Reflective Lyric: the persona's emotional response through recall and reflection or contemplation
 * Elegy: a lyric that expresses grief, usually at someone's death
 * Ode: a dignified, relatively long lyric poem that is formal in language and structure
 * Sonnet: a poem with fourteen lines and usually ten syllables per line
 * Villanelle: a poem made of 19 lines. It has 5 stanzas with 3 lines each and one stanza with 4 lines. It is composed of 5 triplets and a final quatrain.
 * **Dramatic:** works that center on a character who is in conflict with internal or external forces and whose development is revealed without a third-person narrator
 * Dramatic Narrative: a poem in which the incidents or series of incidents are related by a participant who is affected by the events described
 * Dramatic Lyric: reflects the poet's subjective responses, thoughts, and aspirations. The poet reveals these thought and emotions through the words of an appropriate character so that there is added force and vividness to the expression
 * Dramatic Monologue: the persona directly addresses other characters, who are also affected by the incidents taking place and who help motivate the persona's reactions and train of thought
 * Soliloquy: a single person talks and the audience accepts the speaker as accurately and honestly revealing aloud his or her inmost thoughts


 * Characteristics of Poetry**
 * **Density**
 * Poetry is densely written and compact
 * There are all kinds of possibilities in a short amount of text
 * **Emotional Weight**
 * Poetry is overwhelmingly emotional
 * **Patterns**
 * Rhyme schemes
 * Assonance, alliteration, consonance, etc.
 * Stanzas