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A funny poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba. Exactly five lines.
Answer: What is a LIMERICK? (Formula Poem)
The first line usually has the name of a place (often a fictional name made up to rhyme with the rest of the poem). (Lear #34)
100
A Japanese poem, often about nature, containing three unrhymed lines.
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Answer: What is a HAIKU? (Formula Poem)
100
END RHYME or INTERNAL RHYME?
A rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line.
Answer: What is INTERNAL RHYME?
100
Words that imitate sounds.
Answer: What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
100
Lines of poetry that form a division in the poem.
Answer: What is a STANZA?
200
This is created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
Answer: What is a FOUND poem?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
This is a poem in which the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase.
ACROSTIC poem.
200
DAILY DOUBLE
END RHYME or INTERNAL RHYME?
A poem rhymes like this:
What is END RHYME?
200
Words are NOT meant to be taken word for word.
Answer: What is an IDIOM?
200
This is a comparison that show how 2 different items have a similar quality.
Rhythm is a dancer.
Answer: What is METAPHOR?
300
When a poet takes a marker to already written text(like in a newspaper) and starts deleting words until a poem is formed.
Answer: What is BLACKOUT poem?
300
A personal poem all about you.
Answer: What is a "BIO" poem?
300
Repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in a poem.
(Example: My mom made my Monday more magnificent.)
Answer: What is Alliteration?
300
This is used to convey a specific meaning.
A dove with an loive branch is a _________ of peace.
Answer: What is SYMBOL?
300
This makes a comparison between one thing and another using "like or "as ...as."
Answer: What is SIMILE?
400
These poems are RULE BREAKERS. They do not have rhyme or rhythm - BUT - they are still an artistic expression.
Answer: What are FREE VERSE poems (NO RULES!)
They are sometimes thought to be a modern form of poetry; but, the free verse types of poem have been around for hundreds of years.
400
A poem based on the spacing of words. The pattern of the letters illustrates the meaning of the poem. It does not have to rhyme and can be of any length.
Answer: What is CONCRETE / SHAPE poetry?
400
When a writer has an animal or a thing do things that a person can do or feel...
Answer: What is PERSONIFICATION?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Both simile and metaphor are used to _______________ two things.
Answer: What is COMPARE / DESCRIBE?
400
DAILY TRIPLE
One of these words means to be taken word for word.
The other word means an expression, (such as an idiom, onomatopoeia, or alliteration), used to create memorable poems.
Answer: What are LITERAL and FIGURATIVE?
500
A five-line poem in which each line requires a certain number of syllables. Each line adds an additional image to the subject of the poem.
Answer: What is a CINQUAIN? (Formula Poetry)
500
This type of poem has no rhymes.
1) It is 7 lines long.
2) The first and last lines have just one word.
3) The second and sixth lines have two words.
4) The third and fifth lines have three words.
5) And the fourth line has four words.
Answer: What is DIAMANTE?
500
Extreme exaggeration
Answer: What is HYPERBOLE?
500
DAILY TRIPLE!
Give 3 examples of ONOMATOPOEIA.
Answer: What is ...
500
This is used to help readers understand how things look, feel, smell, taste, and sound.
Answer: What is IMAGERY?