Types of Poems
This is a long, serious poem that is usually in praise of something.
What is an ode?
Babbling, bouncing baby boy is an example of this poetic term.
What is alliteration?
This weird poem we read turned out to be a song (NOT The Mom Song)
What is "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare"?
This form of figurative language makes a comparison between two things by using the words 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
Poetry is meant to be read like this.
What is aloud?
This poem tells a story, and is meant to be sung.
What is a ballad?
Two unalike things placed side by side to create contrast is called this.
What is juxtaposition?
This poem showed an example of a juxtaposition between the rich and the poor.
What is "Two Flowers"?
"My heart was beating like a drum".
What is simile?
Poetry doesn't always have to do this, unless it's a couplet.
What is rhyme?
This is a five-line poem that follows a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm.
What is a limerick?
Squeak! Buzz! Pop! Sizzle! are all examples of this poetic term.
What is onomatopoeia?
This poem we read in class showed an example of a rhyming couplet, as well as chorus.
What is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Poetry creates vivid pictures in your head, and it's called this.
What is imagery?
This is a very structured fourteen-line poem that follows a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm. William Shakespeare wrote many of these.
What is a sonnet?
The feeling the reader or audience gets from a poem is called this.
What is mood?
"My Favourite 17 year Old High School Girl" showed an example of this, and it's easy to misinterpret.
What is tone?
Poetry often has a beat. The beat of a poem is called this.
What is rhythm?
This type of poem expresses the speaker's thoughts or feelings, and creates a single, imaginative impression on the reader.
What is a lyric poem?
Similar consonant sounds at the end of words is called this.
What is consonance?
This was the juxtaposition in "Christmas Sparrow", by Billy Collins.
What is the wild and the domestic?
Poetry is this, expressed in rhythmic form.
What is literature?