Poetry

What does a poem always do?

• rhymes
• uses imaginative language
•  uses clear, simple language to get the facts across

Why did people use to use poems to tell stories?

• a poem is harder to remember than a story
• rhymes and the rhythm make poems easy to remember
• a poem is much longer than a story

What is Haiku?

• a type of small fish found in the Arctic ocean
•  a form of Russian poetry
• a form of Japanese poetry

A type of poetry where the words are written to form a particular shape is called what?

• concrete poetry
• plastic poetry
• cake poetry

What is a rhyme?

• when two words sound alike
• when two words start with the same letter
• a type of Chinese poetry

What is alliteration?

• another word for a tongue-twister
• a poem that's really hard to read
• two words together that start with the same sound

What is poetry that uses made-up words to describe things, or just to make nice sounds called?

•  fantabulous poetry
• inside-out poetry
• nonsense poetry

When you compare one thing to another you are using a .... ?

• smile
• simile
• metaphor

What is a metaphor?

• to describe something as if it were something else
• four metas in a row
•  two words that rhyme and mean the same thing

What is giving human feelings and actions to objects known as?

• simplification
• magnification
•  personification