This type of poetry has 3 lines and has a 5-7-5 syllable count
What is haiku?
100
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
What is rhythm?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
In this strategy the reader uses the five senses to understand the details used by a poet. These are the "word pictures" created by the poet.
What is sensory details or imagery?
100
This is the usual topic for Haiku.
What is nature?
200
This is two lines of poetry that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
200
Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry.
What is end rhyme?
200
Read the example & tell which type of figurative language it is:
A dream is a winged bird.
What is metaphor?
200
This means to list items in the same grammatical form or structure so that the sentence will not be awkward.
What is parallelism?
200
Read the example & tell which type of figurative language it is:
If I can’t buy that new game, I will die.
What is hyperbole?
300
This type of poetry contains a lists of items.
What is a catalog poem?
300
The regular pattern of rhythm in a poem. Shakespeare's favorite was iambic pentameter.
What is meter?
300
Words in the English language used to imitate sounds.
Example: Bang! The book fell to the floor.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Read the following simile and change it to a metaphor:
The lanterns were like lightning bugs in the wind
What is "The lanterns were lightning bugs in the wind"?
300
Read the example. Identify the type of figurative language used.
The wave reached out and grabbed the small boy as he sailed to shore.
What is personification?
400
Haiku originated in this country.
What is Japan?
400
Rhyme that is not exact but is close. Example: soul & all
What is slant rhyme or off rhyme?
400
Repetition of the same consonant sound two or more times in one line of poetry.
What is alliteration?
400
Make the following parallel:
Mary wanted to study her poetry notes, go to practice, and then calling her friends on the phone.
What is "Mary wanted to study her poetry notes, go to practice, and then call her friends on the phone"?
400
List three types of rhyme found in poetry.
End rhyme, slant/off rhyme, internal rhyme.
500
This type of poem tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
500
This is the rhyme scheme of this poem:
Whose woods these are I think I know /
His house is in the village though /
He will not see me stopping here /
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
What is aaba?
500
Exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
500
When identifying rhyme scheme, the reader should use these to identify the pattern.
What are lower-case letters?
500
Words that are used according to their dictionary definitions. It's not figurative language.