Types of Poetry
What type of poetry is free-flowing and doesn't rhyme?
Free Verse
True or false: Figurative Language makes writing more descriptive and interesting.
TRUE!
True or false: personification can also include living things.
True
A group of words together on one ______
Line
True or False: All poems have to rhyme.
False
A three lined poem with the syllables 5-7-5
Haiku
Which type of figurative language is a comparison using like or as?
Simile
Say a sentence that is personification.
(Answers may vary)
What is a group of lines arranged together in the poem (looks like a paragraph)?
Stanza
The author of a poem is not called "author" but called.....what?
A Poet
Which type of poetry is the earliest type of poetry that talks about the adventures of a hero?
Epic
What is a word that also makes the sound? Example: Buzz
Onomatopoeia
What is being personified in this passage?
“I am the letter “Q” on a hardly used typewriter, branded and forlorn, Exhaling noisily one last time to defeat my self-pity,”
The Letter Q
What is the feeling or atmosphere of a poem?
Tone
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
ABAB ABAB
Which type of poetry has 14 lines and 10 syllables in each line?
Which type of figurative language is a saying or figure of speech?
Idiom
Explain HOW the pen is being personified in this passage:
“The pen saved lives.
The pen crossed seas.
The pen stops hunger.”
Saving, crossing, or stopping hunger are human characteristics.
What is put on letters to add syllables? (Ex. Swelled from class)
Marks/dots for enunciation.
What is the author that did not name her poems so people used the first line and a number to identify them? (Hint: It was on our personification lesson)
Emily Dickinson
What is a title/example of an epic? (Ms. Busler said some in class)
Beowulf, Illiad, or The Odyssey
"The flame of the candle danced in the wind." is an example of...?
Personification
How was hope personified in the poem "Hope is a Thing With Feathers?"
Sings, warms the heart, asking questions
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases or lines in poetry is called?
Repetition
What day of the month in March is World Poetry Day?
March 21st