Narrative Poetry Notes 1. Tells a story 1. Tells a story 2. Like a short story, it has a plot, 2....

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Narrative Poetry Notes 1. Tells a story 2. Like a short story, it has a plot, characters, setting and theme. 3. Unlike a short story, it is written in verse with a definite rhythm, or beat. 4. Some verses rhyme.

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Narrative Poetry Notes

•1. Tells a story•2. Like a short story, it has a plot, characters, setting and theme.•3. Unlike a short story, it is written in verse with a definite rhythm, or beat.•4. Some verses rhyme.

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The Epic

• 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