Structure
This form uses certain letters in each line to spell out a word.
What is a acrostic poetry?
A sound pattern for the verses that gives poetry rhythm
What is the meter?
This statement brings to mind a better visual picture:
1. his red shirt flapped in the wind OR 2. his face was beet red with embarrassment
What is 2, his face was beet red with embarrassment?
"Smooth as glass" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A poem with a funny, lighthearted mood within a structure
What is a limerick?
This form uses shape to help convey the subject.
What is concrete?
Repetition of words with similar sounds that occur at the end of a verse of poetry
What is rhyme?
This statement brings to mind a better visual picture:
1. he was built like a truck OR
2. he was physically fit
What is 1. he was built like a truck?
"The wind sang a lonely song" is an example of this.
What is a personification?
A poem reflective of nature
What is haiku?
This form is a funny and lighthearted poem, with a rhyme structure, written about how people or animals act silly. They are meant to entertain and make people laugh
What is a limerick?
This is a line of poetry.
What is a verse?
This statement brings to mind a better visual picture: 1. she moved like a butterfly OR 2. she is a graceful dancer
What is 1, she moved like a butterfly?
"He cried a river of tears" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter.
What is a couplet?
A traditional unrhymed Japanese poem of three lines the first line having 5 syllables, the second line 7 syllables, and third the line 5 syllables
What is haiku?
This is how we are made to feel as readers.
What is mood?
This statement brings to mind a better visual picture: 1. the smell of onions was strong OR 2. the stench of the locker room was like rotting zombies
What is 2, the stench of the locker room was like rotting zombies
"My flowers were begging for water" is an example of this.
What is a personficiation?
A poem expressing your thoughts or ideas with no set structure or restraints
What is free verse?
It is a five-line poem following specific numbers of syllables per line; does not have to rhyme
What is a cinquain?
A grouping of four or more lines of poetry that includes a fixed length, meter, or rhyme arrangement
What is a stanza?
This statement brings to mind a better visual picture: 1. the loud whistle blew OR 2. the whistle was like the screech of an attacking raptor
What is 2, the whistle was like the screech of an attacking raptor
"Chuck ate chips during church" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
A non-rhyming poem with seven lines and is diamond shaped.
What is a diamante?