Famous Poets
A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Shakespeare
A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba.
Limerick
When was poetry first seen in history?
13th Century
How is Poetry used in romance?
Poetry can be used as a form of expressing emotions to others.
An Irish poet and civil servant that lived in 1824-1889
William Allingham
14 line poem
Sonnet
How many different types of poetry are there?
4000+
Can poetry be used in a silly way?
Yes
This poet was born into an upper-class family in Odessa Ukraine in 1889 and lived to 1966.
Anna Akhmatova
A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
Shakespearean sonnet
What is poetry?
A form of literature
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Anaphora
English dramatist and poet considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language.
William Shakespeare
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Personification
A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.
Caesura
The Cat and the Moon
W.B. Yeats
8 line stanza
Octave
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
Rythm
A comparison without using like or as
Metaphor