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Painting with Words
Types of Poems
This is an Example of?
Poetry Vocabulary
Mixing it Up!
100
The Verse, "The purple scarf is as attractive as a shopping bag," is an example of what literary element?
What is a Simile.
100
This type of poem has three lines. 5-7-5 syllables.
What is a haiku.
100
sport and court, smother and another, sputtering and muttering
What is rhyme.
100
The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
What is tone.
100
This is how many stanzas a poem must have.
What is one.
200
These compare things that at first glance seem very different without using "like" or "as".
What are metaphors?
200
The first word of each line of this kind of poem spells something.
What is an acrostic.
200
To tutor two tooters to toot?
What is alliteration.
200
The voice talking in a poem
What is speaker.
200
He wrote "The Seven Ages of Man"
Who is Shakespeare.
300
This directly compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile.
300
This type of poem has 14 lines and uses iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet.
300
The fair breeze BLEW, the white foam FLEW...
What is internal rhyme.
300
This is a poem that sounds like ordinary speech. There is no regular pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
What is free verse.
300
This type of poem is written in a shape that is somehow related to the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
400
This is when writers give human or living qualities to nonliving things.
What is personification.
400
This is a type of poem that uses iambic pentameter, but does not have a rhyme scheme.
What is blank verse?
400
Crash Bang Boom Hiss
What is onomatopoeia.
400
This is one element that many humorous poems share that exaggerates reality.
What is hyperbole.
400
Who wrote the poem in which the speaker is encouraging her son to never give up even though life is hard?
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
This appeals to the reader's five senses.
What is imagery.
500
This is a humorous five line poem that has a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme. AABBA.
What is a limerick.
500
We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
What is end rhyme.
500
When the vowel sounds in a line of poetry are repeated.
What is assonance?
500
He wrote "The Road Not Taken."
Who is Robert Frost?