Types of Poems
Five-line poem with a rhyme scheme of a-a-b-b-a
Limerick
A way of comparing two things using like or as
Simile
Is when human characteristics are given to nonhuman things like plants, animals and objects.
Personification
A form of Japanese poetry, usually about nature. Has 3 lines and 17 syllables
Haiku
Compares one thing to another without using the words like or as
metaphor
Using exaggeration to describe something that is impossible.
hyperbole
A poem that doesn't have a regular rhyming pattern or rhythm
Free verse
"The sky was sorbet"
metaphor
When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence.
alliteration
Has a pattern of rhyming or rhyme scheme
Rhymed verse
"The cloud is as puffy as a cotton ball"
Simile
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. "
hyperbole
"I saw two seagulls
And a red bird in a tree
Waiting there for spring."
Haiku
"You are my sunshine."
Metaphor
"The leaves danced in the wind."
Personification