Poetry Terms
Traditional form of Japanese poetry, usually focused on nature. It has three lines and follows a strict syllable pattern.
What is haiku?
The rhyme scheme of the following poem:
My dog is really quite hip,
Except when he takes a cold dip.
He looks like a fool,
When he jumps in the pool,
And reminds me of a sinking ship.
What is AABBA?
Identify the kind of poem:
the tips of each pine
the spikes of telephone poles
hold gathering crows
What is a haiku?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A 14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter, that follows a particular rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
The rhyme scheme of this stanza from a famous poem by Robert Frost:
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
What is AABA?
Identify the kind of poem:
Is it me or the nature of money,
That's odd and particularly funny.
But when I have dough,
It goes quickly, you know,
And seeps out of my pockets like honey.
What is limerick?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things, suggesting that they become the same in comparison.
What is a metaphor?
Humorous 5 line poem following an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
The rhyme scheme of the following poem:
A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett,
Built a bridge for the good River Bumpett.
A mistake in the plan
Left a gap in the span,
But he said, “Well, they'll just have to jump it.”
What is AABBA?
Identify the type of poem:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is a sonnet?
What is onomatopoeia?
Long narrative poem meant to be sung.
What is a ballad?
The rhyme scheme of this stanza from "Dreams" by Langston Hughes:
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is ABCB?
Identify the author of this poem:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
A poem that does not follow any rules.
What is free verse?
The rhyme scheme of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost:
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is AABBCCDD?
Exaggeration done for effect or to make a point.
What is hyperbole?