This poetry type is free form and does not follow any syllable or rhyme rules.
What is Free Verse
100
This word means when an author gives human traits to a non human object.
What is Personification
100
This word means the poetry equivalent of a paragraph, or a group of lines in a poem.
What is Stanza
100
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
What is haiku
100
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!;
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells
What is onomatopoeia
200
This poetry form has 3 lines and strict rules about syllables.
What is Haiku
200
This word describes words whose meanings are sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia
200
This word refers to the organization or pattern of rhyme within a poem.
What is Rhyme Scheme
200
Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
What is cinquain
200
Your teeth are like stars;
They come out at night.
They come back at dawn
When they’re ready to bite.
What is simile
300
This poetry form has 5 lines and strict rules about syllables.
What is Cinquain
300
This word refers to comparing two things using like or as.
What is Simile
300
This word describes rhyme which takes place within one line of a poem.
What is Internal Rhyme
300
'The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull.
The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be---
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.
They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?'
What is ABAB
300
I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.
Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.
I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
What is metaphor
400
This poetry form has a structure that creates the shape of the topic and is also called 'shape poetry.'
What is Concrete
400
This word means to compare two things without using like or as. This can be done by calling one person or object something that it is not.
What is Metaphor
400
This word refers to a part of a word containing one vowel sound.
What is Syllables
400
After the Sea-Ship after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship
What is free verse
400
My food loves to prance, to jump, to dance;
I wait for the time, I wait for the chance!
As mommy goes in and out of the room;tables and chairs become their ballroom!
I flick my fingers; swing my wrist.
Beans and turkey are doing the twist!
Peas, plumbs, apples or mangos;
on to the walls, they're doing the tango!
What is personification
500
This poetry form has strict rules about rhyme and follows a regular pattern with every other line rhyming.
What is ABAB
500
This term means all the language an author uses to engage the reader's 5 senses.
What is Imagery
500
This word describes applying greater force to a word part in order to create rhythm within a poem.
What is Stressed Syllables
500
Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.
What is clerihew
500
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way