Form Example
Boughs fracture light in-
to dark lines, bright polygons
mirroring my soul
What is Haiku?
This type of poem has no set rhyme scheme and no set meter (rhythm).
What is Free Verse?
"My chums scattered like polliwogs" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
These are the words that rhyme.
What are yellow and mellow?
This person is the voice in a poem.
Who is the speaker?
An elderly scribe named Barnett
Had not achieved fame as of yet
Then she wrote a sweet rhyme
Most considered sublime
And now she’s the poetry world’s pet
What is a Limerick?
This type of poem is composed of pairs of rhyming lines.
What is a Couplet?
"The world became a mummy’s tomb" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
He jumped so high, high, high
He touched the sky, sky, sky
The word "high" is demonstrating this poetic device.
What is repetition?
This is a grouping of lines, separated from others, in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The world became a mummy’s tomb,
Dark with fear and most certain doom.
What is a Couplet?
This type of nature poem has three lines and a total of 17 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
"It was as if clouds had to cry" is an example of this.
What is personification?
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,
The words "pits," "peach," and "peel" collectively exemplify this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm or meter?
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is Free Verse?
This type of poem has four lines with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, ABBA, ABCB, or AABB.
What is a Quatrain?
Along with simile, "My outlook was bright as the sun" is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
Swish, swish, swish,
Went the little goldfish
As he swam around his bowl.
A single "swish" from above works as an example of this sound device.
What is onomatopoeia?
A goblin lives in our house
in our house
in our house
A goblin lives in our house
all year round.
As it is used here, "in our house" is an example of this device that is based on repetition.
What is a refrain?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
What is a Quatrain?
This type of humorous poem has five lines with a rhyme scheme of AABBA and lines Three and Four having fewer syllables than lines One, Two, and Five.
What is a Limerick?
"Suddenly raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
This is the line that best exemplifies imagery.
What is "But when the leaves hang trembling" (Line 3)?
A couplet, a quatrain, a haiku, and a limerick walk into a smoothie shop. This is how many lines are jonesing for some frozen yogurt whipped with fruit to quench their thirst.
What is fourteen?
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What is "Can a student refer a teacher to Ms. Rochester?"