Poetry Types and Techniques Vocabulary

Poetry focuses on the expression of feelings and ideas by using distinctive style and rhythm

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Poetry is its own genre of writing

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Poetry must rhyme

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Poetry was initially...

• written

• performed

• spoken

• sung

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What type of poem is used to express emotions or feelings. It has a specific rhyme scheme that makes it have a song-like quality

• Limerick

• Lyric

• Sonnet

• Haiku

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a poem written in 14 lines which can be broken into 4 parts called quatrains

• Limerick

• Lyric

• Sonnet

• Haiku

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a humorous, often nonsense poem. It has 5 lines: lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme; and lines 3 and 4 rhyme

• Limerick

• Found Poetry

• Sonnet

• Ode

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CCSS.RL.7.4

a poem written in 17 syllables. Lines 1 and 3 have five syllables while line 2 has seven syllables. It is usually about nature.

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Ode

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

a poem that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme.

• Universe

• Unusual verse

• All verse

• Free verse

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a lyric poem that often praises the subject is an...

• Limerick

• Lyric

• Ode

• Narrative

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D