Understand the Functions of the Form

Read this passage:

Hello to you, gray cat with your yellow eyes,
hello to you, quiet street replete with emptiness,
hello to you, green grass growing,
hello to you, heavy sky pressing down,
misty morning, hello.

Which literary device is being used in this poem?

• Simile

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• estina

Carefree raindrops drop

Racing on my window panes

Drip drop! They fall down.

What type of poem is this?

• Villanelle

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Sonnet

How many stanzas does this poem have?

• None

• 1

• 4

• 5

What type of poem is this?

• Sonnet

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Pantoum

The pattern of the number of syllables in each line of a stanza is called the...

• Stanza

• Line

• Meter Pattern

• Rhyme Scheme

The use of pictures, figures of speech and description to suggest ideas, feelings, objects and actions which create a vivid picture in your mind.

• Imagery
• Personification
• Free Verse
• Quatrain 

A direct or indirect comparison which points out a similarity without using words such as 'like', 'as' or 'than'.

• Metaphor
• Quatrain 
• Iamb
• Repetition

A fourteen line poem, written in iambic pentameter. Traditionally about the theme of love.

• Sonnet
• Caesura
• Refrain
• Enjambment

Poetry contains everything except...

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Stanzas

• Paragraphs

Rhythm has to do with...

• Words sounding the same

• The stressing of syllables

• How many lines are in a poem

• What the poem is about