Ballad poems are poems telling a story usually through a song.
narrative poems tell a story using voices of narrators or charectors using metaphored versus
There are three main differences between nuclear and mitochondria DNA (mtDNA): 1.) mtDNA is circular, whereas nuclear DNA is linear. (Both are double stranded) 2.) mtDNA is (generally) uni-parentally inherited, in most animals (not mussels though for example), mtDNA is passed from mother to offspring. from wiki
We would need the book or the story to be able to do this one.
Parallelism.
Metaphors and similes are used to relate one thing to another; this sentence is not doing that. Parallelism is when similar devices are used in sentences to convey one story.