Type of poems
Poetic techniques
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100

This type of poem is about the death of a person.

Elegy

100

This poetic technique is correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words

Rhyme

100

Frog floats down the river, 

Lily pads under his feet,

Fish swimming around


Happy, joyful, curious

100

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words.

Alliteration

200

free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression.

Free verse

200

The use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.

Onomatopoeia


200

You are a leaf

blowing in the wind

sailing without concern

flying through the sky


Relaxed

200

A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Simile

300

Humorous poem that is made of 5 verses. The first, second, and fifth line all rhyme just like the third and fourth. They all contain stressed syllables with lines, two, five all have three stressed syllables and the other lines have two. 



Limerick

300

Gives human qualities to non-human ideas or objects.

Personification

300

Snowy mountain so still,

rumbling, rustling,

calm before the storm,

powder plunging for the base,

alarms sound, nobody in sight



Alarming, suspenseful, 

300

The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry

Assonance

400

A fourteen-line poem that states a poet’s personal feelings. Each line of a sonnet poem is 10 syllables in length, and every other syllable is stressed, beginning with the second syllable. 



Sonnet

400

ABABCDCD???

Rhyme scheme

400

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

Hyperbole

500

poem that expresses personal feelings.

Lyric

500

A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as".

Metaphor

500

The repeating of a word or phrase in a line or poem

Repetition