Poetry Vocab
The Great Poets
Types of Poems
Games / Lessons
Poetry Trivia
100
This is a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
This is a poet who published her debut works in 2006 when she was just seventeen.
Who is Taylor Swift?
100
This is a poem in which the first letter in each line spells out a word.
What is an acrostic poem?
100
TRUE OR FALSE: All poems have to rhyme.
What is false?
100
This is the length of the world's shortest poem.
What is one letter?
200
This is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This poem by Edgar Allan Poe was written using imagery that included (but was not limited to) supernatural phenomena.
What is The Raven?
200
This is a poem whose shape makes a picture of what the poem is about.
What is concrete poetry?
200
This small, often one-word thing is something Miss Katie said is 'half of the poem.'
What is a title?
200
This is the length of the world's longest poem.
What is 1.8 million words?
300
This is the general attitude of a piece of writing.
What is the tone?
300
This was the type of poetry that Langston Hughes was an innovator of, including a poem titled 'Harlem Nights.'
What is jazz poetry?
300
This is a Japanese art form that includes three lines composed of five, then seven, then five syllables.
What is a haiku?
300
This was the activity we did using books and Sharpies to create our own poetry.
What is blackout poetry?
300
This is the name of the then-22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate who read her poem, "The Hill We Climb," at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
400
This is the way a piece of poetry is read aloud.
What is inflection?
400
This is the number of poems Emily Dickinson published in her lifetime.
What is 10 poems?
400
This is a group of two lines that share the same meter and have a rhyme scheme.
What is a couplet?
400
This modern format is how we wrote back-and-forth couplets on the first day of camp.
What is a text conversation?
400
This president had two poems that were published in the spring 1981 issue of an Occidental College student literary journal.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
This is the name for the beat that a poem is set to.
What is a meter?
500
Maya Angelou was a woman of many firsts. One such first was publishing 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,' a book that was the first of its kind for this reason.
What is being the first autobiography published by a black woman?
500
This is a poem with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA.
What is a limerick?
500
This is the sentence that could be read seven different ways in which one word changed the entire inflection.
What is 'I never said she stole my money'?
500
This is one of the highest honors a poet can get, in which they are traditionally appointed for life as a member of the British royal household.
What is a Poet Laureate?