Poetry Structure
Rhythm in Poetry
Sound Effects in Poetry
Rhyme
Poems We've Read
100
A single row of words in a poem.

What is a line?

100

A vowel and the surrounding consonants (hint: you can clap along with the word)

What is a Syllable?

100

When words or groups of words appear more than once more than once

Repetition
100
When words at the end of lines Rhyme.

What is End Rhyme?

100

This man carried his horse and lived in a hole called "Backward Hill"

Who is Backward Bill?

200

A group of lines, a verse

What is a stanza?

200

A Syllable that is a little louder and longer than other syllables

What is a Stressed Syllable?
200

Words like "Bang" and "Woof" that mimic a real sound.


What is Onomatopoeia?

200

When words Rhyme with other words in the same line.

What is Internal Rhyme?

200

He can't scratch his nose without cutting himself, or hold his phone without breaking it.

Who is Captain Hook?

300

The area around the text in a poem.

What is White Space?

300
A Syllable that is Shorter and Quieter.

What is an Unstressed Syllable?

300

Repeating the same sound at the beginnings of words.

What is Alliteration?

300

When the writer cheats and adds words that Almost Rhyme, but don't.

What is Slant Rhyme?

300

Why is the Former Foreman not the Foreman anymore?

He got fired for demolishing the wrong house.

400
When two words share an ending, but with different beginning sounds. 

What is rhyme?

400
The Pattern of Stressed and Unstressed Syllables

What is Meter?

400

Teams like the Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Seattle Sea Hawks use this part of sound in poetry

What is Alliteration

400

The Pattern of Rhymes at the end of lines in a poem

What is Rhyme Scheme?

400

In "Smart", why was the boy's dad so proud of him?

He wasn't, because the boy gave away almost all his money.

500

Why split a poem into stanzas? Think about Strange Restaurant or the Poem version of Twinkle Twinkle little star.

Different rhyming words, different topic, separates a single idea.

500
The Stressed Syllables in: "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold"

NAture's first GREEN is GOLD

Her HARDest HUE to HOLD

500
Words like "rustle" or "whisper" or "crackle" that describe sounds.

What is Onomatopoeia?

500

The rhyme scheme of the following lines:

"Forward, the Light Brigade!" 

Was there a man dismayed? 

Not though the soldier knew 

Some one had blundered. 

Theirs not to make reply, 

Theirs not to reason why, 

Theirs but to do and die.

AABCDDD

500

In "Strange Restaurant", why did the customer keep changing his order?

He was ordering food from the animals he would be eating