Types of Poetry
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Types of Poetry
Vocabulary
100

Acrostic

100

A type of literature that tries to stir a reader's imagination

Poetry

100

using words to paint a picture

Imagery

100

Acrostic

100

words that have or end in the same sound

Rhyme

200

Shape

200

where each line of text ends in a poem

Line Break

200

comparing 2 things using like or as

Simile

200

Shape

200

a phrase that means completely different from what it says

Idiom

300

Color
300

A group of lines within a poem

Stanza

300

comparing 2 things by saying one is the other

Metaphor

300

Rhyme

300

makes your foot tap, repeated pattern of sounds

Rhythm

400

Rhyme

400

Words that do not mean what they say

Figurative Language

400

using multiple words in a row that start with the same letter

Alliteration

400

free verse

400

poems that don't follow any patterns

Free-verse

500

Haiku

500

lines/words that are repeated to show importance

Repetition

500

giving human qualities to something not human

Personification

500

Free-verse

500

5 syllables 

7 syllables

5 syllables

Haiku