POETS
LITERARY TOOLs
TYPES OF POETRY
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100

We call someone who writes poetry this.

What is a poet?

100

This literary device is used below. "Her face was like sunshine."

What is a simile?

100

This poetry form has three lines and follows a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.

What is a haiku?

100

This person shared the poem 'Everything' by Shel Silverstein.

Who is Kallista?

200

This 'poet' wrote lots of famous plays.

Who is Shakespeare?

200

This literary device is used below. "The sun was bright and the sky was clear, and the wind was soft and the fields were bare."

What is imagery?

200

This poetry form only needs two rhyming lines.

What is a couplet?

200

This person shared 'Television' by Roald Dahl.

Who is Fiona?

300

This was the poet in our book.

Who is Emily Dickenson? 

300

These two literary devices get mixed up a lot. One uses 'like' or 'as', and the other says something IS something else.

What are simile and metaphor?

300

This poetry form makes words look like an image.

What is concrete poetry?

300

This person loves poetry (and is not Ms. Anna)!

Who is Cole?

400

This poet wrote lots of limericks with odd illustrations.

Who is Edward Leer?
400

We use this literary device in all poetry.

What is imagery?

400

This poetry form follows no rules. Its opposite has 10 syllables per line.

What is free verse? (the opposite of blank verse / iambic pentameter)

400

This person can rewrite lines of other poets.

Who is Colin?

500
This poet was alive in 300 BC.

Who is Homer?

500

This literary device makes lines sound like tongue twisters.

What is alliteration?

500

This poetry form has five lines, and follows the pattern long-long-short-short-long. It is usually funny.

What is a limerick?

500
Many of these people have written poetry books.

Who are poets?

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