Types of Poetry
Definitions
Definitions
Examples
Bonus
100
Name 2 types of poems
Possible answers: Narrative, Haiku, Concrete, Acrostic
100
What is a palindrome?
A word that is spelled or can be read the same forwards and backwards
100
What is repetition? (be specific..)
The repeating of words, lines, or verses
100
(What is this an example of?) Her hair is as black as the night sky.
Simile
100
Name 3 types of figurative language.
Possible answers: rhyme, rhythm, repetition, palindrome, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, hyperbole
200
What is a haiku?
A Japanese poem with 3 lines having 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables.
200
What is a simile?
A comparison of 2 things using LIKE or AS
200
What is an onomatopoeia?
Words that imitate a sound made by a thing or an action
200
When the small girl sat down in the chair it gobbled her up.
Personification (will also accept hyperbole)
200
Give an example of a palindrome.
Possible answers: Bob, dad, bib, racecar, civic, Hannah
300
What is a narrative poem?
A poem that tells a story and has a beginning, middle, and end.
300
What is a metaphor?
A comparison of 2 things WITHOUT using like or as
300
What is rhythm?
The beat made by the sounds of the words
300
While Wally walked, Walter whistled.
Alliteration
300
Poems do not have sentences, they have ________.
Lines
400
What is a concrete poem?
A poem that is in the shape or form of the subject.
400
What is alliteration?
Words that begin with the same letter or sound
400
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to animals or objects
400
Her house is a castle.
Metaphor
400
Poems do not have paragraphs, they have _________.
Verses.
500
Most poems include these "3 R's"
Rhyme, rhythm, and repetition
500
What is rhyme?
When words have the same ending sounds
500
What is a hyperbole?
Exaggeration used for emphasis
500
The books in his backpack weigh a ton!
Hyperbole
500
Give an example of a simile.
Answer: any comparison of 2 things using LIKE or AS
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