Types of Poetry
A style of poetry borrowed from the Japanese that presents an emotion, or image of nature. This form consists of 17 syllables organized into 3 unrhymed lines of 5-7-5.
What is a Haiku?
A device in which consonance, especially at the beginning of words, or stressed syllables are repeated.
What is Alliteration?
What poet spent most of their life in their home, was one of America's most prized poet, and published posthumously?
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects.
What is Personification?
An object, animate or inanimate, which represents or stands for something else.
What is Imagery?
A form of poetry is that is made when a poet takes a piece of already printed text and crosses words until a poem is formed. The text and blacked out words both form the poem.
What is Blackout Poetry?
The central idea of a work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.
What is Theme?
What poet was named the first National Youth Poet Laureate, struggled with a childhood speech impediment, and authored "The Hill We Climb?"
Who is Amanda Gorman?
A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another.
What is Metaphor?
Word choice, intentional in style and meaning.
What is Diciton?
This form of poetry is the use of words and their physical formation to convey meaning. This can be achieved by using color, shapes of letters, and/or the arrangement of words.
What is a Concrete Poem?
An implicit reference to another work of literature or art to a person or an event.
What is Allusion?
What poet read their poetry at Bill Clinton's inauguration, was a civil rights activist, an actress, novelist, singer, and poet?
Who is Maya Angelou?
The use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind, an any extra-sensory experience.
What is Imagery?
A figure of speech in ehich one thing is likened to another. Uses "like" or "as" to do so.
What is Simile?
This is a simple poem written about a person, and it follows a predictable pattern. Bio poems generally don't rhyme, and they can be autobiographical or biographical.
What is a Bio Poem?
A group of lines of verse. Can be any number, but is usually between 4-12.
What is a Stanza?
What poet was a notable artist during the Harlem Renaissance, wrote about the struggle of African Americans in the United State, and authored the poem, "Mother to Son?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
The formation and use of words to imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A figure of speech that contains an exaggeration for emphasis.
What is Hyperbole?
This type of poetry is humorous, frequently inapropriate, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
What is a Limerick?
What is Assonance?
This poet was stolen from Ghana at age 7, and was enslaved in America, taught to read and write by the slaveholders they resided with, and was the first published enslaved person in American History?
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This form of poetry consists of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line and written in iambic pentameter.
What is a Sonnet?
The rhyming pattern in a poem, such as ABAB CDCD, etc.
What is rhyme Scheme?