Types of poems
Two lines that rhyme
What is Couplet
Writing chosen and arranged to create a certain emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
What is Poetry
The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem.
What is Rhythm
Gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is Personification
What type of poem was Beowulf
What is Epic
This poem type tells a story/It is a story told in verse, by a speaker or narrator.
What is Narrative Poem
What was the name of the spoken word poem we listened to as a class?
Dear Future Generations: Sorry
The repetition of the same or similar sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the ends of lines, but sometimes within a line
What is Rhyme
The Midas Touch
What is Allusion
What is the connotation of the yellow rose
What is Friendship
A Japanese form of poetry; one line of five syllables; one line of seven syllables; and a final line of five syllables.
Haiku
May be short or long.
Are NOT necessarily complete sentences or even complete thoughts!
What is Lines
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration
The repeating of a particular sound devise to create an effect.
What is Repetition
What should a thesis contain?
What is Subject, Opinions, Supporting Details
Poetry in which authors use both words and physical shape to convey a message.
A group of lines whose rhyme scheme is usually followed throughout the poem.
A division in poetry like a paragraph in prose.
What is Stanza
Into the ink-filled jar, she inserted the brush.
What is Assonance
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
What is Metaphor
What is my roommates name?
What is Alexis
A poem that resembles a diamond.
What is Cinquain
Ordinary language that people use when they speak or write
What is Prose
Pitter, patter, pitter, patter
What is Consonance
The rhythmic structure within a poem and is dictated by the number of syllables and the pattern in which these syllables are emphasized.
What is Meter
What is my Best Friend's name?
What is Raven