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Types of Poems
Terms
Forms
Poems - Challenge
100
It has three lines and is usually about nature.
What is a Haiku??
100
The sandwich was a tower.
What is a metaphor?
100
This poem has fourteen lines and the rhyme scheme ends with G G.
What is a Sonnet.
100
This free-verse poem, written by Langston Hughes, uses "A raisin in the sun" to symbolize the plight of African Americans.
What is "Dream Deferred"
200
A poem written in the shape of the topic.
What is a Concrete Poem?
200
Giving human traits to objects or non-human things.
What is personification?
200
The rhyme scheme of this poem is A A B B A
What is a Limerick
200
This poem uses the words bricks and hope in a repetitive way.
What is "Hoops?"
300
5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
What is a Haiku?
300
The girl was as tall as a tree.
What is a simile?
300
This poem has six stanzas, six lines in each stanza and repeating words at the end of each line.
What is a Sestina.
300
This poem is a battle cry to fight back with dignity.
What is "If We Must Die"
400
This poem is often humorous (funny)
What is a Limerick?
400
It is a chunk of text separated by space, like a paragraph
What is a stanza?
400
A poem about an apple that looks like an apple.
What is a concrete poem
400
The poem about a swimmer competing in a race is written in this form.
Concrete poem
500
This poem has no pattern of rhyme or beats, and no specific number of stanzas.
What is free-verse?
500
The rain danced and sang on the roof.
What is personification.
500
A poem written from text that already exists.
What is a found poem.
500
The very first poem we studied was by William Carlos Williams, called "This is Just to Say." In it he apologizes for this.
What is "eating the plums that were in the refrigerator."