Types of Poetry
This poetry is usually funny or silly, always has five lines and has a AABBA pattern.
What is a Limerick?
This is a comparison using "like" or "as"
This author was born in 1892 and wrote the poem "The Courage That My Mother Had"
Who is Edna St. Vincent Millay?
playfully fanciful or humorous
What is whimsical?
An emotion or feeling that influences expression
What is sentiment?
Ogden Nash was well known for this type of poetry, which consists of two lines that rhyme with each other.
What is a couplet?
This is a direct comparison.
What is a metaphor?
This author was born in 1913 and wrote a poem about his father "Those Winter Sundays"
Able to recover quickly from hardship or loss
What is resilient?
a gentle sadness or reflective sorrow
What is melancholy?
This type of poetry doesn't rhyme, is usually about nature and is based on a syllable pattern of 5-7-5
What is a Haiku?
This is showing, not telling-when you use your five senses to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
This writer was born in 1902 and was known for his humorous light verse. He wrote over 500 poems.
Who is Ogden Nash?
Thoughtful or inward looking, examining one's own feelings
What is introspective?
Writing that ridicules (makes fun of) human foolishness or vice (wicked behavior)
What is satire?
This poetry takes the form of whatever it is about.
What is a Shape poem?
What is symbolism?
From which poem is this line:
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
What is the poem, Those Winter Sundays
Something passed down from one generation to another
What is heritage?
plainness or in appearance or attitude
What is austere or austerity?
What is an Acrostic poem?
This is when you use two or more words in a row that begin with the same letter.
What is alliteration?
From which poem is the line:
For half a hundred years she has done this.
My father likes to see it like this.
He says it is kempt.
The condition of being subject to death; aware of life's limits
What is mortality?
deliberate exaggeration for comic or emotional effect
What is hyperbole?