| A | B |
|---|
| sonnet | 14-line vese w/ ryhme schemes |
| epic | extended narrative poem - legend/hero |
| free verse | unrhmped w/out metrical matter |
| couplet | two successive lines suualy rhumping and same meeter |
| elegy | mornful peom, for ht elead |
| limerick | humorouse, verse of five anaspetic lines w/ aabba |
| novel | fictional prose of length: plot characters |
| short story | short ficiion, few characters, aiming at unity of effect |
| legend | handed down historical |
| folk tale | story or legend / oral |
| mystery | crime, puzzle |
| iambic pentameter | each line of verse has five feet unstresssed syylable |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| tercet | a grouping of three lines, often bearing a single ryhme |
| haiku | a compact form of japanese poetry written 5,7 and 5 |
| villanelle | a 19 line poem made up off fiver tercets. dylan thomas. do not go gentle into that goodnight. |
| quatrian | four lizen stanza and common for engliish verse, abab |
