Types of Poetry
This short poem has 3 lines and 5-7-5 syllables. What is it?
Haiku
The place or time where a poem happens.
Setting
The sun is a big bright ball.
Metaphor
The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem.
Rhyme scheme
Free Verse poems do not have the same number of these per line.
Words or syllables
A funny five-line poem with a strict rhythm and rhyme scheme (AABBA)
Limerick
The person who speaks in the poem (not always the poet).
Speaker
As busy as a bee.
Simile
If every line in a four-line poem ends with the same sound, this would be the rhyme scheme.
AAAA
The total number of syllables in a haiku.
17
This kind of poem does not follow regular rules for rhyme or rhythm and can look like regular speech.
Free Verse
Lines grouped together in a poem.
Stanza
Giving human traits to non-human things.
Personification
In a poem with the rhyme scheme ABAB, how many different rhyming words are there?
Two
If a poems rhyme scheme is ABAB, which lines rhyme?
The first and third lines, and the second and fourth lines
A poem with a regular pattern of rhyme and line length.
Rhymed Verse
The feeling a poem creates in the reader.
Mood
An exaggerated statement like, "I ate a million pancakes."
Hyperbole
This letter is used to show the first rhyme sound in a poem's rhyme scheme.
A
There once was a pup from the shore,
Who loved to dig holes more and more.
He chased every bug,
And ate from a mug,
Then slept by the old cottage door.
What type of poem is this?
Limerick
This is what distinguishes a limerick from a rhymed verse.
5 lines and AABBA rhyme scheme
The way a poem's lines are arranged on the page and how the break.
Line break
A short phrase that repeats the same sound at the start of several words.
If a poem has the rhyme scheme ABCC, which lines rhyme?
the third and fourth lines
Identify the rhyme scheme:
Line 1 rhymes with line 3
Line 2 rhymes with line 4
ABAB