Forms and Types
Figurative Language
Types and Forms
Name this Poem Type
Rhyme Schemes
100
A group of lines in a poem similar to that of a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
The comparison of two unlike thing without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
A type of Japanese poetry that is made up of three lines.
What is a haiku?
100
Green and speckled legs, Hop on logs and lily pads Splash in cool water.
What is a haiku?
100
There once was a wonderful star Who thought she would go very far Until she fell down And looked like a clown She knew she would never go far
What is aabba?
200
This poem does not have to rhyme and sound more like natural conversation.
What is free verse poetry?
200
The mockingbird on "To Kill A Mockingbird" represents innocence in the story.
What is symbolism?
200
Humorous poems of five lines.
What is a limerick?
200
The Odyssey
What is an epic poem?
200
I once knew a man who lived in a jar, for a stranger sight you'd have to go far. I asked him once, why he lived in a jar, he grimaced and said, how bizarre you are. My jar's so cozy, warm and bright, even in the full moonlight. The only drawback is you see, is getting out quickly, when I have to pee
What is aaaabbcc?
300
This poem focuses on expressing emotions/thoughts rather than telling a story.
What is lyric poetry?
300
The kind of description which appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
This kind of poetry forms the shape of a diamond.
What is diamonte poetry?
300
There once was a man called Costello A silly Vaudevillian fellow He expired this day So this tribute we pay To a man who was shaped like a cello
What is a limerick?
300
I am first with five Then seven in the middle -- Five again to end.
What is abc?
400
A very long poem that retells in a continuous narrative the life and journey of a heroic or mythological person (s).
What is an epic poem?
400
The repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythm or emphasis.
What is repetition?
400
This kind of poetry tells a story with a plot, character, and setting.
What is narrative poetry?
400
Ye ladies, walking past me piteous-eyed, Who is the lady that lies prostrate here? Can this be even she my heart holds dear? Nay, if it be so, speak, and nothing hide. Her very aspect seems itself beside, And all her features of such altered cheer That to my thinking they do not appear Hers who makes others seem beatified. ‘If thou forget to know our lady thus, Whom grief o'ercomes, we wonder in no wise, For also the same thing befalleth us, Yet if thou watch the movement of her eyes, Of her thou shalt be straightaway conscious. O weep no more; thou art all wan with sighs.
What is a sonnet?
400
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
What is abab cdcd?
500
This poem must have only 14 lines. Shakespeare loved them.
What is a sonnet?
500
The repeating of the beginning of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
500
This type of poetry forms the shape of its subject.
What is concrete poetry?
500
This poem was originally meant to be sung.
What is a ballad?
500
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and sink and rise and sink again. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
What is abab cdcd?
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