Types of Poetry

​Types of Poetry 9th/10th grade

Ms. Elder

Limerick

free verse

haiku

diamante

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

​Listen Carefully! On the next few slides before select an answer. If you listen long enough, you might hear the answer......

The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consist of three lines

with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third

Types of Poetry - Haiku

Types of Poetry -Free Verse

A free verse poem is a poem that doesn't rely on any particular form, meter, or rhyme scheme, yet still conveys powerful feelings and ideas. .

Types of Poetry - Limerick

A limerick is a poem, often humorous in nature, that consist of 5 lines in a single stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA

Types of Poetry - Diamante

A diamante poem, or diamond poem, is a style of poetry that is made up of seven lines. The text forms the shape of a diamond.

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

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

Multiple Choice

This a limerick. Read it and pick the final word that fit:

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

• limber

• trunk

Multiple Choice

I can write some poetry

However I want to write.

A pen is the car,

and paper the highway

• Haiku

• free verse

• Limerick

• diamante

Multiple Choice

Writing my poem-

Similes and metaphors

May show up somewhere.

• Free Verse

• rhyme

• Haiku

• Ballad

Multiple Choice

Light

Clear, brilliant

Glowing, shining, revealing

Mirror, candle . . . Whisper, shadow

Deepening, sleeping, shrouding

Black, quiet

Darkness

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Diamante Poem