Poetry Questions?

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Poetry Questions?

I need information on the following types of poetry, basically, what makes that type of poetry that type of poetry:

allegory -

ballad -

ballade -

black verse -

conzone -

cinquain -

couplets -

diamante -

dramtic monologue -

dramtic dialogue -

eclogue -

elegy -

epic -

free verse -

haiku -

hymn -

limerick -

lyric -

narrative -

ode -

pantoum -

pastoral -

rondeau -

rondelets -

roundel -

satire -

sestina -

sonnet -

tanka -

triolet -

villanelle -

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6 months ago
this is not homework, i am asking for my own personal benefit

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

ALLEGORY
A figurative illustration of truths or generalizations about human conduct or experience in a narrative or description by the use of symbolic fictional figures and actions which the reader can interpret as a resemblance to the subject's properties and circumstances.

BALLAD
A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends. The plot is the dominant element, dealing with a single crucial episode, narrated impersonally, with frequent use of repetition. They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic simplicity and force. Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter, i.e., alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyming, an xbyb rhyme scheme.

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