Poetry Features
Types of Poems
Poetic Devices 1
Poetic Devices 2
True or False
100
Poems may have these instead of sentences.
What are lines?
100

A poem that follows a repeating pattern.

What is a rhyming poem?

100
Words that have the same ending sound, usually used at the end of lines of poetry.
What are rhymes?
100

Words or phrases that occur over and over in a poem. Used to add rhythm or emphasis to a poem.

What is repetition?

100
True or False: The stanzas of a poem are separated by blank lines.
What is true?
200
A section of a poem, similar to a paragraph in a passage.
What is a stanza?
200
A poem that has one word written vertically. Each line of the poem starts with a letter in the vertical word.
What is an Acrostic poem?
200
A comparison between two unlike objects. Example: Life is a highway.
What is a metaphor?
200
Words or phrases used by an author to create a picture in the reader's mind using the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
200
True or False? Poets always follow the rules of grammar like punctuation, spelling, and spacing.
What is false?
300
The voice or point of view in a poem.
What is the speaker?
300
A 3-line Japanese poem usually about nature. It follows a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.
What is a haiku poem?
300
A comparison of two objects that uses the words "like" or "as." Example: I slept like a baby last night.
What is a simile?
300
A series of words that all start with the same letter or sound.
What is alliteration?
300
True or False? All poems have rhymes at the end of each line.
What is false?
400
Writing that is meant to be read with rhythm, used in poetry and songs.
What is verse?
400

A poem in 14 lines written in iambic pentameter (best known by Shakespeare). The last 2 lines are a rhyming couplet.

What is a sonnet?

400
A word or phrase used to convey strong emotion. Usually followed by an exclamation mark.
What is an interjection?
400
Giving human traits to an animal or object.
What is personification?
400
True or False? A song is a type of poem.
What is true?
500
The response that a poet wants the reader to have to a poem.
What is purpose?
500

A poem that is told in story format but reads like a novel.

What is an epic poem?

500
Words that are also a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A figure of speech that makes a huge exaggeration. Could be a simile or metaphor that is exaggerated.
What is hyperbole?
500
True or False: I will never understand poetry.
What is false? Poems can be fun to read and we can use the skills we have already learned to help us understand and make inferences in poetry.
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