Definition: a poem that tells a story.
Example: I wanted to tell everyone about the incident so I wrote a narrative
Type of poetry: ballads
Definition: a poem about betrayal, death and love.
Example: He was upset about her betraying me so read a ballad in the dark.
Type of poetry: epic
Definition: a poem about heroes and their adventures.
Example: They loved epics because heroes of epics were always so cool.
Type of poetry: lyric
Definition: a poem that expresses the writer's ideas, feelings or perception, such as a sonnet or an ode.
Example: He was tired of discrimination so he wrote a lyric to express his feeling of anger.
Type of poetry: sonnets
Definition: a poem which consist of 14 lines which consists of two quatrain and six more lines.
Example: Sonnets were so hard to write since he had to shorten his idea into 14 lines and still think of rhyme and rhythm.
Type of poetry: odes
Definition: a lyric which is used to express someone's appreciation for something or someone.
Example: The day when she came back from the performance, she decided to write an ode to the talented actress who performed that night.
Type of poetry: elegies
Definition: a poem written about a deceased person.
Example: Her dad was no longer with us and she was too busy to come to the funeral where people read elegies in his honor.
Type of poetry: free verse
Definition: a poem that may or may not have rhyme, rhythm or meter but still use poetic devices.
Example: Free verses seemed easy to write but were pretty complicated, too.
