Types of Poetry
This type of verse poetry does not have a regular rhyme scheme or verse and it often tries to capture the nature rhythm of spoken language
A unit of meaning
What is a line
This type of poem has the first letters of each line form a word or message relating to the subject
What is acrostic poem
Bang! Smash! Squeak!
What is onomatopoeia
What literary device is demonstrated?
The tropical storm slept for two days.
What is personification
This poem has 3 lines with 17 syllables - 5 syllables in lines 1 and 3, and 7 syllables in line 2
What is a haiku
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is rhyme scheme
Freebie! :)
Freebie! :)
A comparison of 2 unlike things that uses a word of comparison such as “like’ or “as”
What is a simile
What literary device is demonstrated?
It's so fluffy, I'm gonna die!
A unit of verse consisting of 2 lines that usually rhyme
What is a couplet
The people or animals that act like
people in poems that tell a story
What are characters
What are the most popular topics for haikus?
Gives human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification
What literary device is demonstrated?
The girls had the giggles after going to the game and getting grapes.
What is alliteration
This poem has the rhyme scheme aabba
What is a limerick
The repetition of sounds at the end of
lines or within lines
How many syllables are in QUALIFICATION?
QUA-LI-FI-CA-TION
Extreme exaggeration in a poem
What literary device is demonstrated?
She has the heart of a lion
What is a metaphor
This poem only has four lines with 4 possible rhyme schemes:
AABB ABAB
What is the poem, and what are the other two possibilities?
Quatrain, AAAA, ABCD
Lines that are grouped together
Stanza
What is the difference between figurative language and literal language?
Literal language=expressing yourself saying exactly what you mean
Figurative language=expressing yourself, not saying exactly what you mean (literary devices)
When the author uses descriptive details that appeals to our senses
What literary device is demonstrated?
She disappeared as quickly as a ghost, and was never heard from again.
What is simile