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  2. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is normally dramatic, with various characters. [1] Narrative poems include all epic poetry, and the various types of "lay", [2] most ballads, and some idylls, as well as many poems not falling into a ...

  3. Epic poetry - Wikipedia

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    A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

  4. Epic (genre) - Wikipedia

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    Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its roots in ancient poetry (epic poems such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey).

  5. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  6. Verse novel - Wikipedia

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    A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose.Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there is usually a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novelistic manner.

  7. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Biography: a written narrative of a person's life; an autobiography is a self-written biography. Memoir : a biographical account of a particular event or period in a person's life (rather than their whole life) drawn from personal knowledge or special sources (such as the spouse of the subject).

  8. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.

  9. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story. Metanarrative, sometimes also known as master- or grand narrative, is a higher-level cultural narrative schema which orders and explains knowledge and experience you've had in life. Similar to metanarrative are masterplots or "recurrent skeletal stories, belonging to cultures and individuals that ...