Poetry

language that uses the 5 senses and paints a mental picture

• imagery

• stanza

• line

• verse

a paragraph in a poem, separated by white space

• line

• verse

• stanza

• poem

one single line in a stanza, not a sentence

• verse

• line

• stanza

• poem

the pattern of rhyme in a poem

• stanza

• rhyme scheme

• rhyme

• repetition

a poem that praises someone or something, can be silly

• ode

• narrative poem

• lyric

• limerick

A poem where the first letters of each line make up a word.

• limerick

• free verse

• acrostic

• diamante

a 3-line japanese poem about nature, with a 5-7-5 pattern

• cinquain

• haiku

• diamante

• couplet

a poem that tells a story

• tercet

• octave

• narrative

• haiku

a poem that is written in the shape of its topic

• narrative

• concrete

• lyric

• limerick

a humorous, rhyming 5-line poem where lines 1, 2, & 5 rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 rhyme and are shorter

• concrete

• limerick

• lyric

• quatrain