1. 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

2. 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