Types of Poetry Lesson

What is true about haiku poems?

• They’re usually about nature.

• all of the above

• They originated in Japan.

• They have three lines.

Limericks are usually

• written in free verse

• about the seasons.

• humorous.

• lengthy

A limerick’s rhyme scheme is

• ABCDE

• AABCB

• ABAB

• AABBA

Which poet lends his name to a type of sonnet he helped make famous?

• William Shakespeare

• William Butler Yeats

• William Carlos Williams

• William Blake

A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of

• seven stanzas.

• two limericks in a row.

• four quatrains and a couplet.

• three quatrains and a couplet.

What is not true about Shakespearean sonnets?

• They have no specific meter.

• They have a set rhyme scheme.

• They have fourteen lines.

• They are often about love.

A ballad is a poem that

• is usually funny

• is never read aloud.

• tells a story.

• describes a setting.

True or False: A concrete poem is shaped like what it describes.

• False

• True

Concrete poems

• always rhyme.

• always form a shape or picture.

• are always written in iambic pentameter.

• are always 15 lines long.

What is meter?

• the number of lines in a poem

• the type of words used in a poem

• the pattern of stressed and unstressed lines in a poem

• the cycle of rhyming and non-rhyming words in a poem