Limerick
Haiku
Ballad
Free Verse
Elements of Poetry
100

The following poem is made of 5 lines

What is Limerick

100

The following poem is made of 3 lines

What is a Haiku

100

The following poem is made of 4 lines

What is a Ballad

100

The following poem is made of no set line length

What is a Free Verse

100
The structure of a poem is set up of what two components?

What are lines and stanza(s)

200

What is the common theme of a limerick? 

What is a funny, nonsense, or comedic theme. 

200

What is a common theme of a haiku? 

What is nature.

200

What is a common structure of a ballad? 

What is a song like poem. 

200
What is a common structure of a free verse? 

What is no set rhyme or pattern. 

200

Identify something poems often have.

Rhyme /Rhyming/ Rhythm 

300

What are the rhyme schemes of a limerick?

What is A,A,B,B,A

300

What are the syllable pattern of a haiku?

What is 5-7-5 or 17 total syllables. 

300

What are the rhyme schemes of a ballad?

What is A,B,C,B

300

What are the rhyme schemes of a free verse?

What is no set rhyme scheme

300

Poetry often contains what other skill? 

What is figurative language

400
Identify which lines rhyme in a limerick.

What is the 1st, 2nd, and 5th line 

and the 2nd and 4th line. 

400

Identify which lines rhyme in a haiku.

What is that there is no rhyme scheme but the 1st and 3rd line have the same amount of syllables. 

400

Identify which lines rhyme in a ballad.

What is the 2nd and 4th line. 

400

Identify which lines rhyme in a free verse.

What is there is no set line patterns or rhyme scheme.
400

Identify what a rhyme is.

What is the same ending sounds of the last word in a line. 

500

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Is it a limerick?

"A bumblebee buzzing with glee,
Decided to visit a tree.
It danced in the air,
With style and flair,
Then zipped off to sip from a pea. "

What is A,A,B,B,A and yes.

500

What is the syllable pattern of the following poem? Is it a haiku?

"The dog was barking

howling and growling all night long

then it was silent. "

What is 5-8-5 and no. 

500

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Is it a ballad?

"The wind whispers through the trees,
Shadows stretch across the quiet street.
A lone bird arcs through the gray sky,
Time pauses, holding its breath."

What is A,B,C,D and no. 

500

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Is it a free verse?

"One night the waves rose high and wild,
The winds howled like a beast in pain.
Yet he held fast, a steadfast child,
And steered his ship through the fierce rain. "

What is A,B,C,B and no. 

500

Poetry is something everyone will always agree with and receive the same message from. 

What is no, it is up for interpretation.

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