Fears & Pet Peeves
A Japanese form of poetry
(consists of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables and no rhyming)
Haiku
verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
Acrostic
A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
(Typically these are meant to be funny)
Limerick
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme OR a two-line Stanza
Couplet
What is a Cinquain
a five line stanza
a poem with fourteen lines that rhymes (Think Shakespeare)
Sonnet
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the person or thing it is about.
Ode
the single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word
Syllable
A four line stanza
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Free Verse
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas (Like a story)
Ballad
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Simile
Sestet
A 19 line poem using only 2 rhymes, and repeating two of the lines in a pattern
Villanelle
Using words that begin with the same letter or sound for a poetic effect
The mood of the poem. (How does it make you feel when you read it)
Tone
three line stanza
Tercet
giving an animal, or object a personal nature or human characteristics in your words
Personification
Finish the line from the poem The Raven
Once upon a....
Midnight Dreary
Who wrote the poem Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Emily Dickinson
Finish the line from the poem Mother to Son
Life for me ain't been no
Crystal Stair
Ozymandias was the self-proclaimed king of what?
Kings
What happens to a dream deferred?
Harlem