Types of poetry
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This kind of poem is a five line poem about one topic.
What is a Cinquain?
100
This is one line in a poem. Several of these make up the verse.
What is a Meter?
100
This kind of verse has words that end in the same sound.
What is a Rhyming Verse?
100
This happens when a poet uses several words that BEGIN with the same sound next to each other or close together.
What is Aliteration?
100
Thee was a young man from Spring Run Who loved to play out in the sun. His homework he forgot At study hall he thought I hat missing out on the fun!
What is a Limerick?
200
This kind of poem is about one topic or word. The word or message is spelled out vertically.
What is an Acrostic?
200
A poet does this when they use words that portray a noise or a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
This kind of verse tells a story or narrates a story and many times it rhymes.
What is a Narrative Verse?
200
This happens when a poets repeats the SAME VOWEL sound in words that are next to each other or close to each other.
What is Assonance?
200
Daddy's voice thunders He shoots a lighning jumpshot through a sweaty storm
What is a Haiku?
300
This kind of poem has 4 rhyming lines.
What is a Quatrain?
300
This is a group of lines in a poem that are repeated two or more times.
What is a Refrain?
300
This kind of verse can describe any topic using interesting words but does not need to rhyme.
What is a Free Verse?
300
The poet will use this when they are trying help the reader "see" the setting.
What is Atmosphere?
300
aabb abab abcb abba
What is a Quatrain?
400
This kind of poem has 14 lines and follows a regualr rhyme scheme.
What is a Sonnet?
400
This is a group of lines in a poem which are related to each other in the same way sentences are to a paragraph?
What is a Stanza?
400
A poet will do this if they are trying to describe something that is NOT human and give it human qualities or capabilities.
What is Personification?
400
This is when the poet will repeat CONSONANT sounds at the END of words.
What is Consonance?
400
O - Over the age L - Light colored hair D - Almost at death's door
What is a Acrostic?
500
This kind of poem is silly or has rhymes that make no sense. It always has 5 lines.
What is a Limerick?
500
This is when a poet compares one thing to another using words such as "like" or "as".
What is a Simile?
500
This is when a poet will take a word or words and use them more than once in a line or in a poem.
What is Repetition?
500
This is when a poet will compare two things by presenting them as if they were almost identical.
What is a Metaphor?
500
Your laugh peels apples And stirs their cinnamon bubblings, then opens a book and pulls me in onto your lap.
What is Free Verse?
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