Types of Poems
Structure
Language
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
100

Poem that tells a story and has plot and characters

What is a narrative

100

What is a stanza

What is a group of lines forming a recurring metrical unit

100

Looking over a writing and organizing between stressed and unstressed syllables

What is scansion or scanning

100

What is an example of an onomatopoeia

What is boom, pow etc. 

100

Comparing something using like or as

What is a simile 

200

Dramatic poem example

What is Romeo and Juliet

200

Stanza with 8 lines

What is an octave

200

Single unit of sound in a word

What is a syllable

200

What is assonance repeating 

What is a vowel

200

Figurative Language device that compares to things

What is a metaphor

300

What is an example of a narrative? 

Beowulf, Iliad and the Odyssey 

300

Underlying meaning of a word

What is connotation 

300

What mark goes over an unstressed syllable

What is a breve

300

What is alliteration

Repeating the initial sound

300

What is a pun

A play on words

400

What is an example of a dramatic poem?

what is Shakespeare or a play

400

Dictionary definition of a word

What is denotation

400

What mark goes over a stressed syllable

What is a accent

400

What is a slant rhyme 

Something that doesn't exactly rhyme 

400

Contradictory statement that contains some truth to it

What is paradox

500

What is a lyric?

What is Haiku, Limerick, or Sonnet

500

A thought or idea that continues onto the next line

What is enjambment 

500

Pattern of rhythm of a poem 

What is a meter

500

What is an end rhyme 

What is a rhyme at the end of a sentence 

500

What is an exaggeration of something with a humorous affect

What is a hyperbole 

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