Summarize the major similarities and differences between the forms of drama, poetry, and the short story.

That's a very general question, but basically speaking, a
short story is a short piece of fiction that generally includes the following elements:
setting, characters, point of view, theme and plot.

The
basic elements of poetry are the speaker, the use of lines and stanzas, rhythm and
meter, rhyme, sound devices (alliteration, consonance, assonance and onomatopoeia),
imagery and figures of speech (simile, metaphor
and personification).

A drama is literature which is
written to be performed, and therefore, the story is generally told through the words
and actions of actors. The key elements of drama include characters, setting, plot,
dialogue, and acts and scenes (as divisions of the
drama).

This is a summary of information from the
textbook "Literature: The Reader's Choice, Course 5," by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill,
1990.

Hope this helps. Good
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