Poetic categories
This type of poems are related to love.
Love poetry
Repeats words to make emphasis.
Repetition
What is a rhyme?
Words whose endings match
Two lines that rhyme
Couplet
What is it that goes up, but never comes down?
Age
This type of poem talks about creation
Nature poetry
Use “like” or “as” to compare
Simile
Write a rhyme of KNOWLEDGE
College, Savage, Encourage, Damage, Message...etc.
write the pattern of TERZA RIMA
ABA BCB CDC ...
Where is an ocean with no water?
On a map
Clue words: adjectives
Descriptive poetry
Write a methaphor.
Various. Without using “like” or “as”.
Write a love stanza of 3 lines, rhyme the word HEART
Art, fart, flirt, part, start, apart, hurt...etc.
Write the pattern of the enclosed rhyme scheme
ABBA CDDC EFFE
How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but 2 people survived?
The two survivors were married.
Write one stanza in less than 30 seconds. It must be religious poetry.
Various
1 minute to write 3 lines with rhymes using a simile.
Various. Using “like” or “as”.
Write 5 words that rhymes with CAR
Far, are, bar, her, star, were, scar, azar, bizarre, etc.
Write an alternate stanza
ABAB CDCD EFEF
What is the biggest problem with snow boots?
Snow boots melt
One minute to write a laugh poetry stanza.
Did it make you laugh?
1 minute to write a methaphor in 1 stanza, use rhymes.
Various. Not using “like” or “as”
3 words that rhyme with POETIC (20 seconds)
Athletic, pathetic, cosmetic, phonetic, synthetic, arithmetic, alphabetic, diabetic, etc.
Write a monorhyme stanza use words that rhyme with SCHOOL
Same ending sound in every line
What do you always see at the begging of a parade?
The letter P