NORTH RIDGEVILLE, OH (WOIO) -. The swat team was called to a home on Island Road Monday afternoon. Around 12:50 p.m., North Ridgeville police officers received a report of a man that had shot himself at 9840 Island Road.
These are called NARRATIVE POEMS. Just like the regular stories which you read in your literature courses, a narrative poem also has the same basic elements. It has a setting, one or more characters in it, usually a conflict, a plot which builds up to a climax, and even a conclusion, oftentimes.
Poetry is the first major literary genre. All types of poetry share specific characteristics. In fact, poetry is a form of text that follows a meter and rhythm, with each line and syllable. It is further subdivided into different genres, such an epic poem, narrative, romantic, dramatic, and lyric. Dramatic poetry includes melodrama, tragedy, and comedy, while other poems includes ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad, song, and epic. Popular examples of epic poems include Paradise Lost, by John Milton, The Iliad and The Odyssey, by Homer.