Poetry Facts
Figurative Language
Haiku/Limerick
Rhyme/Free Verse
What am I?
100
A poem that is made more impactful by writing the words in the shape of what is being discussed.
Concrete
100
The grass felt like a green carpet on my toes.
This is an example of what time of figurative language?
simile
100
A Haiku has ______ lines.
three
100
A rhyme verse poem has to have a rhyme pattern called a ___________.
Rhyme Scheme
100
Concrete
200
The writer of a poem is called what?
Poet
200
The summer breeze whispered through the trees.
This is what type of figurative language?
Personification
200
A haiku has a syllable pattern of __________.
5 7 5
200
A _______ verse will will not always have stanzas and will not rhyme.
free (verse)
200
What am I?
Spring is in the air
Flowers are blooming sky high
Children are laughing
Haiku
300
True or False?
All poems have to have a rhyme scheme
False
300
The waterslide reached the sky.
What type of figurative language is this?
Hyperbole
300
A _____________ has to rhyme.
Haiku or Limerick?
Limerick
300
True or False
A free verse poem must have a rhyme scheme and 9 lines.
False
300
What am I?
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Free Verse
400
A musical poem that can be sang and can be written for romantic means
Ballad
400
“Silent silver snow slipped softly down the hillside.”
Alliteration
400
What is the rhyme scheme for a limerick?
AABBA
400
What is the rhyme scheme for this poem?
The evening blooms with silver light,
And shadows lean to greet the night,
A robin’s call drifts soft and low,
Across the grass where cool winds blow,
While petals fold in calm delight—
The stars awake, unbound by sight.
Beneath the moon’s soft, watchful gleam,
The world drifts deep into a dream,
A distant brook begins to sing,
Its voice a clear and trembling ring,
And all is still as thoughts convene—
Night holds the hush of worlds unseen.
AABBAC
400
What am I?
There once was a wonderful star
Who thought she would go very far
Until she fell down
And looked like a clown
She knew she would never go far.
A limerick
500
Type of nonliteral language used in poetry is called ___________ language.
Figurative
500
“Her laughter was sunlight breaking through clouds.”
Metaphor
500
How many lines does a limerick need to have?
5
500
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
When the last light
slips off the edge of your certainty
and the world, for a moment,
stands without a name—
what shape does your courage take?
Is it the quiet inhale
before a truth you fear to speak,
the trembling note
in the throat of an unfinished promise,
or the shadow
you finally turn around to face?
And if you could follow that shape
past the borders of comfort,
past every door you never opened—
would you still call it courage,
or would you call it
yourself?
There is no Rhyme Scheme
500
The Lantern on the Hill
A lantern glows on yonder hill
Where night winds wander free,
It calls the lost with gentle light
As ships call out to sea.
They say a keeper tends its flame
Though none have seen him still,
A watchful soul who guards the dark
From high upon that hill.
And travelers who pass that way
Speak soft, with reverence deep,
For those who follow lanterns’ glow
Find dreams instead of sleep.
Ballad