Types of Poetry
The poem that is originally from Japan.
What is Haiku?
The paragraphs of a poem.
What is stanza?
I saw a frog,
He was as cute as can be,
He was sitting on a log
And I'm sure he croaked at me!
What is a-b-a-b?
What is onomatopoeia?
The repeated, rythmic pattern found in Shakespeare's sonnets.
What is meter?
A song-like, narrative poem featuring rhyme, rythym and refrain.
What is ballad?
The sentences of a poem.
What are lines?
This is my turtle,
He lives in a shell,
and likes his home very well.
What is a-b-b?
Busily buzzing, the bee behaved beautifully. (Look at the italicized letters)
What is alliteration?
For example: "The teacher alluded to the play, Romeo and Juliet."
What is allusion?
A poem that has no rhyme or regular meter.
What is free verse?
A comparison between two objects using "like" or "as."
What is simile?
Two little squirrels,
Climbing a tree.
Two little rabbits,
Looking at me.
What is a-b-c-b?
The poem with 7 lines and no attention to the number of syllables.
What is Diamante?
Shakespeare invented this kind of poem and helped it to gain popularity within writing.
What is sonnet?
A five lined poem that is usually humorous.
What is limerick?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iamb?
When you smile,
I get a reason to cheer,
All the moments so dear.
What is a-b-b?
A comparison that uses the words "is" or "was."
What is a metaphor?
The 5-lined form that Shakespeare mainly used in his poems. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
A poem that just has 2 lines.
What is couplet?
What is personification?
If good wishes do come true,
My most sincere I send to you.
What is a-a?
An exaggeration of the literal meaning of a phrase, not meant to be taken seriously.
What is idiom?
This is the number of quatrains within a sonnet.
What is 3 quatrains?