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fable a short, simple tale that teaches a moral lesson limerick a light, usually humorous poem with regular rhythm and rhyme scheme science fiction fiction dealing with the impact of science or future narrative poetry a verse that tells a story lyric poetry a poem that expresses thoughts or emotions about a subject protagonist the central or main character tall tale an imaginative tale of adventures or amazing feats of North American folk heroes; superhuman characters short story brief fictional narrative story refrain a line or lines repeated regularly, usually in a poem or song end rhyme occurs at the end of a line free verse poetry with no "fixed" pattern of meter, rhyme line length, or stanza arragement folktale a traditional story passed down orally, long before ever written down; (tall tales, animals, tricksters) legend a traditional story passed down orally and based on the history of people or a nation slant rhyme occurs when words when words include sounds that are similar but not identical antagonist a person or force that is against that main character lyric a verse or poem that can be sung meter the regular pattern of stressed syllables that give a line of poetry a predictable rhyme rhyme scheme a pattern formed bye the end rhyme; uses different alphabet letters for sound poetry the type of literature in which language, images, sounds, and rhyme are combined stanza a group of lines forming a unit in a poem/paragraph like