151. How many kinds of Poetry are there?
  Seven.

  152. What are they?
  Epic, Dramatic, Lyric, Elegiac, Didactic, Satiric and Pastoral.

  153. What is an Epic poem?
  A poetical recital of some great and heroic enterprise.

  154. Are there many Epic poems?
  There are not; most nations have one.

  155. Name the three Epics of greatest note.
  Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.

  156. What language were these poems written in?
  The Iliad in Greek, Aeneid in Latin, and Paradise Lost in English.

  157. What does the Iliad describe or narrate?
  The downfall of Troy, which was the most memorable event in the
          early history of the Trojans and Greeks.

  158. What does the Aeneid narrate?
  The perils and labors of Aeneas, who was the reputed founder of the
          Roman race.

  159. What does Paradise Lost describe?
  The downfall of not only the Human but of the Angelic host.

  160. What is a Dramatic poem?
  One similar in many respects to an Epic.

  161. Name some point of difference.
  Epic relates past events; the Drama represents events as taking
          place at the present time.

  162. Name the greatest Dramatic writer of the English.
  Shakespeare.

  163. What is a Drama called that is set to music?
  An opera.

  164. What is a Melodrama?
  A dramatic poem some parts of which are spoken and some are sung.

  165. What is Lyric Poetry?
  It is the oldest kind of poetry, and was originally intended to be
          sung to the accompaniment of the lyre.

  166. What are Sonnets?
  A kind of Lyric Poems.

  167. What is an Elegy?
  A poem of a mournful kind, usually celebrating the virtues of some
          person deceased.

  168. What is an Epitaph?
  A short Elegy inscribed on a monument, or written in praise of any
          one.

  169. What is a Pastoral poem?
  One that describes country life.

  170. What is a Didactic poem?
  One the aim of which is to give instruction.

  171. What is Meditative Poetry?
  A kind of Didactic poetry.

  172. Name two noted Didactic poems.
  Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” and Campbell’s “Pleasures of Hope.”

  173. What is a Satire?
  One that holds up the follies of men to ridicule.

  174. Is a Satire personal?
  It is not.

  175. What is a Lampoon?
  A poem that attacks individuals.

  176. What is Gesture?
  Expression given to language by movements of the body, limbs, etc.