Types of Poems
This is a Japanese verse form with 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
What is haiku?
This song or poem expresses sorrow or grief for someone (or something) who/that is dead.
What is an elegy?
This is the repetition of consonant sounds and is often confused with consonance.
What is alliteration?
What devices compares two very different things using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
This is the poetic equivalent of a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This is a humorous verse with 5 lines and an AABBA rhyme.
What is a limerick?
"O Captain! my Captain," a line from a poem written in response to Abraham Lincoln's death, is an example of this poetic device.
What is apostrophe?
This is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of sentences/poetic lines.
What is anaphora?
This device compares two very different things WITHOUT "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
This is when a single sentence continues over two or more lines of poetry.
What is enjambment?
This is a formal lyric poem that addresses and celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is an ode?
Two of these types of poems used in Poetry Bingo this week were about dead lovers.
What is ballad?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in multiple words.
What is assonance?
What type of language evokes the five senses and creates a picture in your mind?
What is imagery?
This is the basic unit of measure of poetic meter. One of these usually contains one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.
What is foot?
Shakespeare wrote many of these 14-line poems with a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
This narrative poem is about a bird that the narrator believes is communicating messages from the supernatural realm.
What is "The Raven"?
This is the repetition of consonants at the beginning, middle, or end of words.
What is consonance?
This is a brief, indirect person to a significant/important person, place, thing, or idea.
What is an allusion?
This stanza has four lines.
What is a quatrain?
This complex unrhymed French verse form repeats words in a specific way. It has six 6-line stanzas and a 3-line ending stanza.
What is a sestina?
This narrative poem is about "the landlord's black-eyed daughter" whose lover tells her he'll "come to thee in the moonlight, though hell should bar the way."
What is "The Highwayman"?
This French verse form repeats lines and has five 3-line stanzas and a final quatrain.
What is villanelle?
This figure of speech appears to contradict itself, but it actually reveals a truth.
What is paradox?
What is iambic meter?