Types of Poems
What is the syllabic structure of a haiku?
5/7/5
What is an idiom?
A statement that doesn't make sense by itself
In which level of poetry would you look for things like the ideas and how they shape a poem?
The ideational level
A "paragraph" of lines of poetry is called a:
stanza
Define malapropism:
Ludicrous misuse of a word
A sonnet is typically about:
love
What is personification?
Giving human-like traits to non-human things.
In which level would you look for things like the sounds and repetition of sounds throughout a poem?
The sonic level
speaker
Define portly:
stout
What type of poem is of memorial, generally written about a tragedy or a death?
Elegy
What is a pun?
A play on words
In which level would you look for things like capitalized letters, bolding/italics, the shapes of stanzas, and font of letters?
What is the rhyme scheme of the following words?
Desk Mess Bean Clean Chess Statuesque
ABCCBA
Define loquacious:
To talk a lot
What does a narrative poem do?
tells a story
What is a paradox?
A statement that doesn't appear to make sense at first, but actually does or has deeper meaning after thinking about it.
In which level would you look for things like figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification?)
The sensory level
A sonnet's rhyme scheme is:
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Define mollify:
to make soft
2 or 4 lines per stanza
What is an oxymoron?
What is the point of the 4 levels of poetry?
14
define venerable:
respected