This is the kind of poetry that doesn't follow a set rhythm or rhyme.
What is free verse?
100
As dry as dust.
What is a simile?
100
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
What is ABAB?
100
Once I dive into these pages
I may not come out for ages.
What is a couplet?
200
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
This is a poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
200
His heart is a stone.
What is a metaphor?
200
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky.
What is AABB
200
5-7-5 syllable structure
What is a haiku?
300
This is a group of just 2 lines.
What is a couplet?
300
This is an ancient Japanese form of poetry.
What is a haiku.
300
The sun smiles down on me.
What is personification?
300
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
What is ABCB
300
There once was a wonderful star
Who thought she would go very far
Until she fell down
And looked like a clown
She knew she would never go far.
What is a limerick?
400
This is the phrase for the rhyme pattern in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
400
This is an Irish poem that is usually funny.
What is a limerick?
400
Susie slowly sat in the sand.
What is alliteration?
400
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
What is ABAAB?
400
In a pouch I grow,
On a southern continent --
Strange creatures I know.
What is a haiku?
500
This is the word for the message or lesson of a poem.
What is theme?
500
This is a poem where the first letter of every line forms a word.
What is an acrostic?
500
The cannon went boom! Boom! Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
500
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam I am.
I do not like them in a boat.
I do not like them with a goat.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
What is AABBCC
500
Crunchy chewy
Awesome
Nice and sweet
Delightful and delicious
Yummy treat