What distinguishes a short story from a poem

First, we need to understand between prose and verse:

Prose is the normal language that we use in normal speech, in literature it's the way most of novels are written using paragraphs.

Verse tends to be written with rhythms and consonances, instead of paragraphs it uses stanzas.

Now, the short story could be a small novel written in prose using this common method in modern literature that comes from short tales to a scientific book, while a poem is written in verse, often used in poetry and songs.

pretty sure the short story has clear  plot development, while the poem does not. I apologize if I am wrong

Explanation:

he is honest with congress and america about the difficulty of the war ahead.

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most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease