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Types of Poetry

A comparison without using “like”

or “as”

What is a metaphor?

A comparison of two unlike things

using words “like” or “as”.

What is a simile?

“Hey! Cabbage for brains! I’m talking

to you!”

What is a metaphor?

Where now the many men hurry about like

ants.

What is a simile?

My teacher is like a ray of sunshine in my life?

What is a simile?

The use of words whose sounds imitate or

suggest their meaning.

What is Onomatopoeia?

Silky sounds that sing to the soul!

What is alliteration?

The author gives a nonhuman subject

human characteristics.

What is personification?

This appeals to one or more of the five senses.

What is Imagery?

The ghostly galleons grab greedily.

What is alliteration?

A Japanese poem of 17 syllables.

What is a Haiku?

A humorous five line poem with a specific

meter and rhyme scheme.

What is a Limerick?

A poem that takes the shape of the

object it describes.

What is a concrete poem?

S oon very soon

A special guest will arrive

N ot through the front door

T o the chimney he’ll slide

A nd bring lots of toys for all girls and boys.

What is an acrostic poem?

A poem that doesn’t rhyme.

What is Free Verse Poetry?

A pattern of beats and stresses.

What is rhythm?

Look up, my people,

The dawn is breaking,

The world is waking,

To a new bright day,

When none defame us,

Nor colour shame us,

Nor sneer dismay.

The rhyme scheme for this poem is…

What is

ABBCDDC?

A pattern of rhyme that uses the alphabet to represent sounds to

be able to visually “see” the pattern.

What is rhyme scheme?

A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the

end of another line .

What is end rhyme?

Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and

consonant sounds.

What is Rhyme?

A group of lines in a poem.

What is a stanza?

Words or phrases repeated in poetry.

What is refrain?

The kite danced with joy at the end of the

kite string and seemed to laugh in the wind’s

face.

What is personification?

An extreme exaggeration.

What hyperbole?

A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning

of words.

What is alliteration?

His smile was a mile wide when he heard there was no

homework from Mrs. Sheffield.

What is a hyperbole?

The bottle fizzed then popped.

What is onomatopoeia?

Fear knocked on the door.

What is personification?

My teacher is like a ray of sunshine.

What is a simile?

Western wind, when wilt thou blow? Sally sold seashells by the

seashore.

What is alliteration?

Make your wager

I don’t care for him because he blows his own

horn too much.

What is an idiom?