This type of poem has 3 lines with 17 total syllables.
What is a Haiku?
The pattern of end rhymes that can be found in some types of poems.
What is Rhyme Scheme or Rhyme pattern?
Figurative language that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
The authors message about a specific topic within a story or poem.
What is theme?
When the author hint at future events in a piece of writing.
What is foreshadowing?
This type of poem expresses personal feelings that may be set to music or movement.
What is a lyric poem?
When a word resembles or is used to create a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
When the same sound is repeated several times in close proximity with in a poem.
What is aliteration?
The authors attitude in a piece of writing shown through the author's word choice.
What is Tone?
The place where Tanka poems originate from.
Where is Japan?
This type of poem tells a story, it has a beginning, middle and an ending.
What is a narrative poem?
When the author uses the same word or phrase over and over again.
What is repetition?
This type of poem uses its form to help convey the subject of the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
When an authors uses an object to represent
What is symbolism?
A 5 lined poem or stanza.
What is a cinquain?
This type of poem is created when you select certain words from a text and arrange them to create a poem about that subject.
What is a found poem?
When somethin is exaggerated in a story or poem.
What is hyperbole?
When objects or something nonhuman is given human like characteristics.
What is personification?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
A genre of literature that expresses intense feelings and ideas in a distinct style and rhythm.
What is Poetry?
This type of poem has a diamond shape. It begins by mentioning one thing but half way through switched to the opposite subject.
What is a Diamante poem?
A unit of sound that a word contains. Many poems use this to set patterns within lines of prose.
What is a syllable?
When two things are compared with each other in a descriptive way.
What is metaphor?
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza?
A fourteen lined poem with the Rhyme Scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What is a Sonnet?