Types of Poetry

Which type of poetry tells a story?

• Lyric
• Narrative
• Haiku
• Free Verse

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A word, line, or group of lines that are repeated during the course of a poem

• stanza
• line
• refrain
• quatrain

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Poem that has a beginning, middle and end in terms of action

• Narrative
• Sonnet
• Refrain
• Lyric

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought

• Lyric
• Sonnet
• Narrative
• Free Verse

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

 Poetry without a regular pattern of stanzas, meter, or rhyme

• Sonnet
• Narrative
• Lyric
• Free Form

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Poetry that has a regular pattern of stanzas, meter, and rhyme

• Narrative
• Fixed Form
• Sonnet
• Free Form

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Poem consisting of 14 lines with an intricate (complex) rhyme scheme

• Narrative
• Haiku
• Sonnet
• Lyric

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CCSS.RL.7.4

A shift in subject matter or attitude in a poem

• Turn
• Stanza
• Line
• Couplet

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Poetry is . . . 

• mundane
• boring
• exciting
• ridiculous

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

There was an old man of Peru

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.

He woke in the night,

With a terrible fright,

And found it was perfectly true.

• limerick

• ode

• haiku

• ballad

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9