| A | B |
|---|
| Describes an author's inner feelings | lyric poem |
| Musical poem that tells a story | ballad |
| Usually a serious, sorrowful poem | elegy |
| Formal poem that praises someone or something | ode |
| A poem with fourteen lines | sonnet |
| A pair of lines that rhyme with each other | couplet |
| A long poem that tells a story about a heroic figure. | epic |
| A form of Japanese poetry usually three lines with a pattern of 5-7-5. | haiku |
| Emotion | mood |
| Attitude of writer towards a literary work, its characters and events it tells about. | Tone |
| A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes the other. | metaphor |
| A person, place , thing or event that has meaning to in itself and also stands for something. | symbolism |
| A contrast between expectations and reality. | irony. |
| A poem that tells a story. | Narrative Poem |
