types of poetry
Elements
main idea
devices
not poetry
100
It has 14 lines arranged in a specific rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
100
rhythmic structure/syllables, stressed and unstressed words.
What is meter?
100
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
What is the end of the world, ice=hate, fire=desire
100
as hard as a brick.
What is a simile?
100
a long narrative poem, featuring archetypes.
What is an epic?
200
It has three lines consisting of 5, 7, 5 syllables
What is a haiku?
200
frog, dog, bog, fog
What is rhyme?
200
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
What is nothing good can last forever.
200
I studied a hundred years for this final.
What is hyperbole?
200
State the opposite side then prove it wrong.
What is a counter argument/ rebuttal?
300
in the shape of what it's about
What is a concrete poem?
300
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
What is refrain?
300
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
What is helping others makes me feel better about myself.
300
crash landing, alone together, good grief, icy hot, steel wool
What is oxymoron?
300
Pick a side, then prove your point.
What is argument?
400
has 5 lines and is humorous
What is a limerick?
400
abba, acca, bccb, baab, cbbc, caac.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
What is simple things matter. The form of this poem adds to the meaning.
400
The wind sang through the meadow. The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze. The butterflies in the meadow seemed to two-step with one another.
What is personification?
400
when the audience knows more than the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
500
hippies
What is free verse?
500
How a work feels to the writer and the reader.
What is tone/mood?
500
And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom.
What is it is sometimes harder to do nothing than to make a change.
500
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
What is alliteration?
500
state chosen side and three reasons in one sentence.
What is a thesis statement?
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