Type of Poetry
This type of poetry has 3 lines with 17 syllables total.
What is a haiku?
An acrostic poem of the word "School" would have how many lines?
6
This is the repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant.
What is alliteration?
What is a stanza?
Funny
Limerick
This type of poetry describes a famous person or event.
What is a ballad?
A diamante must have how many lines?
7
This is when two things are compared using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is the ordinary form of writing or speech (not poetry).
What is prose?
Diamond
Diamante
This type of poetry has five lines and 22 syllables.
What is a cinquain?
A limerick must have how many lines?
5
This is when human qualities and ideas are given to non-human things.
What is personification?
Identify the rhyme scheme:
The witch had a cat,
And a hat that was black,
And long ginger hair
In a braid down her back.
ABCB
Picture
Concrete
In this type of poetry, words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem
What is a concrete poem?
A ballad must have how many lines?
No set length!
This is a comparison of two things in which one is said to be another.
What is metaphor?
What is a group of four lines in a poem called?
What is a quatrain?
Word/Name
Acrostic
In this type of poetry, each of the 7 lines has specific types of words that may be used.
What is a diamante?
A sonnet must have how many lines?
14
This is the author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
A cinquain has 22 syllables. How are these syllables broken down within the poem?
5 lines: 2, 4, 6, 8, 2
Nature
Haiku