Type of Poetry

What is Poetry?

• A type of writing that rhymes.

• A type of writing where words are arranged based on their meaning, sound, and rhythm.

• A type of writing that has imagery and form.

• A type of writing that doesn't make sense.

What is Form?

• Describing something.

• Phrases and figures of speech that mean something other than what the words actually said.

• A straight line with people.

• The style of a poem and the way in which it is written, whether it creates sounds, tells a story, has rhythm, or makes you laugh

Figurative language is phrases and figures of speech that mean something other than what the words actually said.

• True

• False

Cinquain poetry is...

• a form of poetry that requires five lines.

• a form of poetry that requires three lines.

• a form of poetry that requires rhyming words.

• a form of poetry that requires 10 lines.

Limerick is a....

• 4-line stanza that rhymes.

• a form of poetry that does not follow patterns of rhythm and rhyme

• fun form of poetry that tells about a person or animal.

• Has an:

  A, A, B, B, A pattern

A Free Verse is a form of poetry that...

• follows a pattern of rhythm and rhyme.

• does not follow patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

• follows patterns.

• that does not follow rhyme.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

This is an example of what type of poetry?

A Haiku is a Chinese form of poetry that has four lines and does not follow a pattern.

• True

• False

A Haiku has...

• three lines

• five lines

• follows this pattern:

  5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5syllables

• follows this pattern:

  4 syllables, 8 syllables, and 4 syllables

An acrostic poem is a form of poetry where

• the first letter of each line spells your name.

• the first letter of each line spells out a word.

• three lines rhyme.

• each line spells and follows a pattern.