Poetry Review

Question 1

What type of poetry has the shape of the poem reinforces an idea in the poem?

Answer 1

Concrete

Question 2

What poem has no rhyme, rhythm, or sound?

Answer 2

Free verse

Question 3

In what kind of poetry do the lines of the poem spell out a word?

Answer 3

Acrostic

Question 4

Which poem has five lines and there are three different common forms of it?

Answer 4

Cinquain

Question 5

In what poem is there a pair of two rhyming lines?

Answer 5

Couplet

Question 6

In what kind of poem is there five lines and the syllables go like this: 5
         7 
         5
         7
         7

Answer 6

Tanka

Question 7

In what kind of poem is there five lines and a bunch of rules on the rhymes and syllables in the poem?

Answer 7

Limerick

Question 8

What is a metaphor?

Answer 8

A comparison not using the words like or as

Question 9

What is Meter?

Answer 9

The number of syllables in a line and the rhythm in a poem

Question 10

What is personification?

Answer 10

Giving a non human thing human characteristics or abilities

Question 11

What is rhyme?

Answer 11

Words ending with similar sounds

Question 12

What is a simile?

Answer 12

A comparison using the words like and as.

Question 13

What is alliteration?

Answer 13

Similar beginning sounds

Question 14

What is repetition?

Answer 14

Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis

Question 15

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 15

Words that stand for sounds