Types of poetry 7th grade

Types of poetry 7th grade

We're looking at few different types of poems today:

rhyme

free verse

haiku

limerick

Sonnet

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Types of poetry Haiku

The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. 

Types of Poetry - Sonnet

A sonnet (pronounced son-it) is a fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme.

Types of poetry Free verse

Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.

Types of poetry- Ballad

A ballad is a poem that tells a story, usually (but not always) in four-line stanzas called quatrains. The ballad form is enormously diverse, and poems in this form may have any one of hundreds of different rhyme schemes and meters. 

Types of poetry - Limerick

A limerick is a poem, often humorous in nature, that consists of five lines in a single stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA.

Types of poetry - Rhyme

Rhyme is a popular literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs.

Types of Poetry - Ode

 An ode is a short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event

The questions will only be about some of the types of poetry today

Put your knowledge to the test and see which ones you can identify

Multiple Choice

11.This is a limerick. Read it and pick the final word that fits: An elephant lay in his bunk,

In slumber his chest rose and sunk,

He snored and he snored

Till the jungle folks roared-

Then his wife tied a knot in his

• bunk

• skunk

• lumber

• trunk

Multiple Choice

12. I can write some poetry

Write it any way.

I can write some poetry

I could write all day.

• rhyme

• haiku

• free verse

• sonnet

• ballad

Multiple Choice

13. I can write some poetry

However I want to write.

A pen is the car,

and paper the highway.

• rhyme

• Haiku

• free verse

• Ode

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

14. Writing my poem-

Similes and metaphors,

May show up somewhere.

• Sonnet

• Ode

• Haiku

• Free verse

• Ballad