Characteristics of Poems & Poetic Types

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Simile

• Personification

Poems can be organized by _____________.

Match the following vocabulary words:

• a sound associated with a word (buzz)

• Ontomatopoeia

• the pace or beat of a poem

• Metaphor

• the repetition of initial consonants

• rhythm

• A Phrase that compares two unlike things

• personification

• abstract quality in human form

• alliteration

The shape or structure of a story.

How knowledge or information is expressed or communicated.

• Line breaks

• form

• stanza length

• structure

A poem's form (meaning the number of lines that it has), its rhythm and rhyme scheme, and whether it is an example of an existing type of poetry.

• form

• structure

• organization

• line breaks

How a poem is ______________.

Like lines, there is no set length to a stanza or an insistence that all stanzas within a poem need be the same length.

• form

• structure

• organization

• stanza length

The blank line between stanzas is known as a stanza break.

• stanza length

• line breaks

• stanza breaks

• structure

A poetic device that is used at the end of a line, and the beginning of the next line in a poem. It can be employed without traditional punctuation.

• stanza length

• stanza breaks

• line breaks

• form

Match the following

• everything relates to one idea or theme

• Free Verse

• reframes writing from a source

• Foundational Materials Poem

• dictionary definition of a word

• Ode

• focus on a single person or object

• List Poem

• no formal rhyme or pattern

• Definition Poem