Haiku and Limerick

Poetry/ Figurative Language

Metaphor

Compares two unlike things

Simile

Compares two unlike things using like or as

Haiku

• Originates from Japan

• Usually about nature

• Has ONLY 3 lines

• Syllables 5/7/5

Limerick

• Usually silly

• Has ONLY 5 lines

• Rhymes on lines 1.2.5 and 3.4

Limerick Example

There was an Old man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!-
Two owls and a hen.
Four larks and a wren.
Hae all built their nests in my beared

Multiple Choice

There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

The world is a stage.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

The light of a candle

Is transferred to another candle —

spring twilight.

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

Life is like a roller coaster.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

A dozen, a gross and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four.
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Is nine squared and not a bit more.

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

That was a piece of cake.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

This world of dew

is a world of dew,

and yet, and yet.

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

Spill the Beans.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

I need a front door for my hall,
The replacement I bought was too tall.
So I hacked it and chopped it,
And carefully lopped it,
And now the dumb thing is too small.

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

Sam likes selling lollipops on sundays.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, and then

A poppy blooms.

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

Every day the dogs drink dirty water.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

Hickory Dickory dock,
the mouse ran up the clock;
the clock struck one
and down he run;
hickory Dickory dock. (Charles Perrault)

• Haiku

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

The earth shakes

just enough

to remind us. 

• Haiku

• Limerick