Type of poems
This type of poem is about the death of a person.
Elegy
This poetic technique is correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words
Rhyme
Frog floats down the river,
Lily pads under his feet,
Fish swimming around
Happy, joyful, curious
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words.
Alliteration
free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression.
Free verse
The use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.
Onomatopoeia
You are a leaf
blowing in the wind
sailing without concern
flying through the sky
Relaxed
A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Simile
Humorous poem that is made of 5 verses. The first, second, and fifth line all rhyme just like the third and fourth. They all contain stressed syllables with lines, two, five all have three stressed syllables and the other lines have two.
Limerick
Gives human qualities to non-human ideas or objects.
Personification
Snowy mountain so still,
rumbling, rustling,
calm before the storm,
powder plunging for the base,
alarms sound, nobody in sight
Alarming, suspenseful,
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
Assonance
A fourteen-line poem that states a poet’s personal feelings. Each line of a sonnet poem is 10 syllables in length, and every other syllable is stressed, beginning with the second syllable.
Sonnet
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Rhyme scheme
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
Hyperbole
poem that expresses personal feelings.
Lyric
A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as".
Metaphor
The repeating of a word or phrase in a line or poem
Repetition