Types of Poems
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Allusion
Alliteration
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Simile
Metaphor
Personification
100

A narrative poem or song that tells a story

What is a Ballad?

100

He has heard hatred in the hollows.

What is Alliteration?

100
This is an exaggerated statement for dramatic effect

What is Hyperbole?

100

The same sound occurring in different words

What is Rhyme?

100

A comparison between two unlike things, without using the words like or as

What is a Metaphor?

200

Shakespeare loved to write these 14 line poems in iambic penameter

What is a Sonnet

200

"I think that I should never see 

a poem as lovely as a tree"

What is a couplet?

200

A reference in one literary work to a character or theme of another literary work

What is Allusion?

200

The main message or moral that a poem holds

What is Theme?

200

A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or " as"

What is a Simile?

300

This long narrative poem often expresses sadness for someone who has died.

What is an Elegy?

300
" Ms Green is so mean, she gave us a ton of homework this weekend"

What is a Hyperbole?

300

The repeating of the beginning sound in a group of words

What is Alliteration?

300


= Love 

= Peace

What are Symbols?

300

A device in which human characteristics or actions are given non-human beings or objects

What is Personification?

400

5 lines with a Rhyme Scheme of "AABBA"

What is a limerick?

400

Mom came in and said, "you boys have got a tidy mess on the go in here!" 

What is an Oxymoron?

400

That coffee is hotter than the Sun!!

What is Hyperbole?

400

How the Author feels about what they are writing

What is Tone?

400

She walks in beauty like the night

of cloudless climbs and stary skies.

What is Simile?

500

The tree shape I blew

From a little drop of paint

looks like a dancer

What is a Haiku?

500

That's not right

That's not right

That's not right

That's not right


What is repetition?

500

As she gazed up from her novel,"The Hunger Games", Rebecca began to wonder if she was doing enough to create equality in the world.

What is Allusion?

500

A couple of lines that Rhyme

What is a couplet?

500

Though wise men at their end know dark is right 

"Because their words had forked no lightning "

they Do not go gentle into that good night.

What is Personification?