Types of poems
Poetry Vocabulary
Figurative Language used in Poetry
All about Poetry
Things you should know
100

A poem that contains no rhymes or rhythm

Free verse

100

When the lines end for a specific purpose

Line Break

100

When you give a non-human thing human like characteristics.

personification

100

Someone who write poetry

Poet

100

a book that you can find definitions, parts of speech, word origin

dictionary

200

A poem that expresses personal feelings and emotion.

Lyric poem

200

The beat or flow of a poem

rhythm

200

The use of repeated sounds, words, or phrases

repretition

200

A type of language that uses form

Poetry

200

Information that supports your answer.

Text Evidence

300

the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word.

Acrostic poem

300

The stressed or unstressed syllables in a poem

Meter

300

The beginning sounds of words are repeated. 

Alliteration

300

A composition in verse

poem

300

You should always do this strategy before you read your passages.

Read the questions

400

A comical poem

Humorous Poem

400

The paragraphs of a poem

Stanza

400

A comparison of two things not using like or as

Metaphor

400

The number of the main poetic forms

4

400

Every answer must have this.

Proof or text evidence

500

A poem that tells a story. It has characters, the setting, and the theme.

Narrative poem.

500

The sentences of a poem

Lines

500

Words that mean more than their literal meaning

Figurative language

500

The poetic form that is Mrs. Lambert's favorite

Humorous Poetry

500

Who is your English teacher?

Mrs. Lambert

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