Types of Poetry

What is a ballad?

• a poem that tells a story; usually written in quatrains
• two rhyming lines
• four rhyming lines
  no set rules

What is a couplet?

• creating your own words to a well known tune
• two rhyming lines
• five lines with a rhyme scheme of a-a-b-b-a

What is a concrete poem?

• words of a song
• a japanese poem with 3 lines
• a poem written in the shape of a picture

What do you call a poem about a person?

• Haiku
• Bio-poem
• Limerick

This poem uses each letter of the subject to begin a line of the poem.

• Acrostic
• Ballad
• Diamante

This is four rhyming lines.

• Couplet
• Cinquain
• Quatrain

This poem is in the shape of a diamond and changes subjects. 

• Diamante
• Diamond
• Haiku

This poem has five lines that follows a pattern.

• Limerick
• Cinquain
• Parody

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What poem has no set rules?

• Free verse
• Lyrics
• Parody

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This is a Japanese poem with 3 lines (syllables 5, 7, 5). It doesn't rhyme.

• Acrostic
• Concrete
• Haiku

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