Narrative Poetry Notes

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Narrative Poetry Notes

• 1. Tells a story
• 2. Like a short story, a narrative poem has a
  plot, characters, a setting, and a theme.
• 3. Unlike a short story, it is written in verse
  language with a definite rhythm, or beat.
• 4. In many, the verses rhyme.
• 5. Divided into stanzas.
• 6. The stanzas usually have the same number of
  lines, and the same rhyme pattern

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The Epic narrative poem

• 1. Long narrative poem
• 2. A narrator tells the story
• 3. The theme is important
• 4. Setting is huge like a sea, region, or world
• 5. Has a hero
• 6. Includes superhuman deeds such as battling
  with natural and supernatural obstacles
• 7. Epic poem is to teach as well as to entertain