Types of Poetry
Figurative language
Poetry characteristics
100

The type with no rhyme scheme

What is free verse
100

Compares something using like of as

What is simile

100

Breaks in a poem to symbolize a new paragraph

What is stanza

200

Lyric poetry with 14 lines

What is sonnet

200

Compares something without using like or as

What is metaphor

200

Uses symbols to represent ideas 

What is symbolism 

300

A funny and sometimes rude poem

What is limerick 

300

Gives inanimate objects human like qualities 

What is personification

300

Ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem. 

What is rhyme scheme

400

A narrative poem with a melodious rhyme scheme

What is a ballad

400

Repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of words

What is alliteration 

400

Created by four stresses in many lines

What is rhythm 

500

A poem where each beginning of a new lines spells out a word

What is acrostic 

500

Exaggerated statements not to be taken seriously 

What is hyperbole

500

Lines that rhyme are labeled 

What is A-Z

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