Poetry Types and Sound Devices Review

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout/ Would not take the garbage out

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Words that imitate sounds

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Poems shaped to look like their subjects

• Limerick

• Concrete poems

Humorous, five-lined poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme

• Limerick

• Lyric

Songlike poems that tells stories, usually about adventure or romance

• Narrative poems

• Ballads

Pattern of rhyme in a poem

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

Three-lined Japanese poem in which the first and last lines have five syllables and the second line has seven syllables

• Limerick

• Haiku

When words share the same final sound

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

Poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker; usually highly musical

• Lyric

• Ballad

Repeating words for emphasis or importance

• Rhyme

• Repetition