Types of Poetry
What type of poetry is free-flowing and doesn't rhyme?
A. Free Verse
B. Narrative
C. Haiku
D. Lyric
A. Free Verse
True or False: All poems have to rhyme.
False.
Which type of figurative language is a comparison using like or as?
Simile
In poetry, what is the view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem?
Theme
True or False: Most rap is also considered poetry.
True
A three lined poem with the syllables 5-7-5
A. Free Verse
B. Narrative
C. Haiku
D. Lyric
C. Haiku
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
ABAB ABAB
"I am so hungry I could eat a horse!" is an example of...?
Hyperbole
What is the feeling or atmosphere of a poem?
Tone
The author of a poem is not called "author" but called.....what?
A Poet
A poem that tells a story in verse
A. Free Verse
B. Narrative
C. Haiku
D. Lyric
B. Narrative
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
Repetition
"Wendy walked while talking" is an example of?
Alliteration
A group of words together on one ______
Line
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts is called...
A. Dialogue
B. Soliloquy
C. Quotations
D. Aliloqui
B. Soliloquy
A short poem usually written in first person; is often in musical verse.
A. Free Verse
B. Narrative
C. Haiku
D. Lyric
D. Lyric
Two consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme.
A. Sonnet
B. Ballad
C. Epic
D. Couplet
"The flame of the candle danced in the wind." is an example of...?
Personification
What is a group of lines arranged together in the poem (looks like a paragraph)?
Stanza
What is the author that did not name her poems so people used the first line and a number to identify them? (It was in our virtual assignment)
A. Maya Angelou
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Phillis Wheatley
C. Emily Dickinson
Which type of poetry is the earliest type of poetry? Hint: Beowulf, Illiad, and The Odyssey are all examples.
Epic
A 14 line poem with a certain rhyme scheme.
A. Sonnet
B. Ballad
C. Epic
D. Couplet
A. Sonnet
What is a word that also makes the sound? Example: Buzz
onomatopoeia
We don't call the narrator of a poem the "narrator" but instead call them.....what?
The Speaker
What day of the month in March is World Poetry Day?
March 21st