Types of Poetry
Literary Elements 1
Literary Elements 2
Examples
Random
100

What is a haiku?

What is describing something in or about nature. Form has seventeen syllables arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5.

100

What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects? 

What is personification.

100

What is using a key word several times throughout a poem?

What is repetition.

100

What is an example of a poem: 

She swam like a shark.

What is simile.

100

What is an onomatopoeia?

What is word that sounds how it is spelled.

200

What is a limerick?

What is a five-line verse with humour and bounce. 

Could be AABBA

200

What is a simile?

What is a comparison using like or as. 

200

What is a tone?

What is the feelings the speaker has about the subject.

200

What is an example of a poem: 

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. 

What is alliteration.

300
What is every line in this type of poem repeats a word or phrase?

What is repeat-a-word. 

300

What is a picture drawn in the reader's mind by words of the poet?

What is imagery.

300

What is something that the outcome is the opposite of what was expected?

What is irony.

300

What is an example of poem:

Dead chrysanthemum...

yet - isn't there still something

remaining in it?

What is a haiku.

400

What is a poem's words trace the movement of an object or outline it's shape?

What is shape up.
400

What is an assonance?

What is two words in the same line having similar vowels.

400

What is an exaggeration for humorous or thematic effect?

What is hyperbole.

400

What is an example of a poem:

There once was a verse from named Princeton.

No one can account for the name of it.

Some think from a game

Or from poets it came. 

They came from a small town name Princeton.

What is a limerick.

500

What is a decorative and inspiring way to highlight the rhythms and structure of a poem?

What is a mobile. 

500

What is something that which tells a story with characters, a plot, etc?

What is narrative poetry. 

500

What is a sonnet?

What is a 14-line poem which sets up a problem and offers a solution. 

500

What is an example of poem:

Nature does not have 

a lost and found table

for summer feathers

and so ...

What is a free verse.

M
e
n
u