Haikus
How many lines does a haiku have?
What is the number 3?
How many lines does a limerick have?
What is 5?
What is a concrete poem?
What is a poem whose words make the shape of whatever the poem describes?
True or false: Free verse poems have specific rhyme schemes and syllable patterns.
What is false?
Name a poet famous for his sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
State the amount of syllables in each line of a haiku.
What is 5,7,5?
Who wrote this limerick?
"There was a young lady whose chin
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin."
Who is Edward Lear?
True or False: Concrete poems have to rhyme.
What is false?
What animal is this free verse poem about?
"Walk. Trot. Canter. Gallop.
The ground stirs and shakes.
A flash of lightning across the grass _
Who can race the wind?"
What is a horse?
Name the number of lines in each stanza of a sonnet.
What is 4, 4, 4, 2?
Which line has seven syllables in this haiku?
"An old, silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond
Splash! Silence again"
What is "a frog jumps into the pond"?
State the rhyme scheme for the 5 lines in a limerick. (Use letters to represent the end rhymes.)
What is AABBA?
What would be a good shape for this poem by Colleen Thibaudeau?
"As big as ball, as round as sun,
I tug and pull you when you run,
And when wind blows, I say politely,
'Hold me tightly!' "
What is a balloon shape?
What is the title of this free verse poem?
"She calls me tofu
because I am so soft,
easily falling apart.
I wish I were tough
and full of fire, like ginger _
like her."
What is "Sisters"?
What are the names for each stanza of a sonnet? (Use the number of lines in each stanza as a hint.)
What is quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet?
What are haikus mostly about?
What is nature?
Where are the A-rhyme scheme lines in this limerick?
"There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!' "
What are "there was an old man with a beard", "who said, 'it is just as I feared", and "have all built their nests in my beard"?
True or False: A single word can become a concrete poem if it is placed in an unusual spot on a page.
What is true?
How many syllables are in each line of the poem "Fog" by Carl Sandburg?
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches,
and then moves on."
What is 3, 5, 4, 7, 5, 4?
What are sonnets mostly about?
What is love?
How many syllables does a haiku have in total?
What is 17?
What are the two shortest lines in a limerick?
What are the third line and the fourth line?
Name two things a concrete poem can also be called.
What are a shape poem or a picture poem?
Who wrote the free verse poem "This is Just to Say"?
Who is William Carlos Williams?
How many lines does a sonnet have?
What is the number 14?