Types of Poetry
A type of lyric poetry that deals with serious themes such as justice and beauty.
What is an Ode?
The author's attitude toward the subject presented.
What is tone?
Poets use _____ _______ to convey a poems meaning and mood.
What is Sound Devices?
3 lines, set syllables of 5,7,5, usually about nature
What is a haiku?
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
14-line poem that originated in Italy but was altered by English poets, especially William Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
Use of rhyme and rhyme scheme contributes to the poems ____ (4 letters)
What is mood?
Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.
What is assonance?
no rules, no meter, no rhyme
What is free verse?
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
A shirt
Silly, 5 lines, AABBA rhyme scheme, often made people laugh.
What is a limerick?
Word choice, or ______, affects a poems meaning and the way it sounds. (7 letters)
What is diction?
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words.
What is Alliteration?
Is this a haiku? Look closely.
"The birds sing, plants thrive
It's finally spring, let's have fun
No more snow this year"
This is NOT a haiku because there is the wrong number of syllables. (This poem is 5, 10, 5)
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Queue
Tells a story often passed down through a song.
What is a ballad.
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
Repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words.
What is consonance?
g l g l
a s p l a s t i c s a
s s
"Glass, Plastic, Glass"
What kind of poem is this?
What is a concrete poem?
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
Eat and Ate
Visual surprise, usually shaped like what it describes.
What is a concrete poem?
A poets unique style of expression. The use of _____ can reveal a poets traits, beliefs, and attitudes.
What is voice?
repeating the same words or phrases, or dames grammatical contructions.
What is repetition?
Rule-free I can be myself
I can climb mountains in this poem
Can you be free too?
What is a free verse?
You answer me, although I never ask questions. What am I?
A phone