Creative Writing 3.04 Styles and Forms of Poetry

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Example of a poem: "There was a young man from Purdue,/He needed to find something new,/She started a band,/but we said it was bland,/so he's going straight back to Purdue."

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limerick

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Rhyme scheme of most limericks?

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AABBA

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Who dies at the end of Frost's poem Out, Out-?

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the young boy

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Type of poem for Frost's Out, Out-?

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narrative

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Statement about narrative poetry:

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Focuses on key characters.

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Type of poem for The Highwayman:

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ballad

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Term for short poetry focusing on speaker's feelings?

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lyric

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Type of poem: The Tropics of New York by Claude McKay

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lyric

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First American poet to write free verse?

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Walt Whitman

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Original master of Haiku?

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Basho