Types+of+Poetry

Types of Poetry
 * 1) Personification A literary device that gives human qualities such as, personality, emotions, intelligence, or, form to animals, ideas, or inanimate objects. It extends our human experience to non-humans. Example: //A centipede was quite happy.//
 * 2) A metaphor is a literary device that compares to unlike items. Examples: // the bullfrog’s croak was the tuba of the swamp band. //
 * 3) Verbal Irony is a literary form that lets us say one thing but mean the opposite. Usually irony is expressed in positive words. ( Aesop Fables)
 * 4) Alliteration is a literary term in which an initial identical consonant sound is repeated. Ex. The willows were whispering in the wind.
 * 5) Onomatopoeia is a literary form in which words sound like their meaning. Ex. Hiss, clang, crash, boom, sizzle.
 * 6) Hyperbole is a literary form that gives force or intensity to what we say or write. We often use hyperbole in our every day speech. Exaggeration, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”
 * 7) Haiku is an ancient poetry style that originated in Japan. It is short but does two things: It usually describes a natural object and includes a second image or an insight that gives energy to the first image. There are traditionally, 17 syllables in a Haiku. First line five second has seven, and third line has five. (A five, seven, five pattern) Sometimes not all Haiku’s follow the format.
 * 8) All  narrative poems tell stories. These stories can be real or fictional events or ordinary or famous people. Narrative poems can rhyme or be free verse.
 * 9) Free Verse is easy and fun to write. There isn’t any strict verse pattern, nor does free verse poetry rhyme. Instead a free verse lets the writer use language that appeals to the head and the heart.
 * 10) A limerick is a five-line poem, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme and have three beats to the rhythm. The third and forth lines rhyme and have two beats to the rhythm.
 * 11) Lyric poetry developed from the ancient Greek form of poetry that was accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. These types of poems are like songs and have a musical quality about them. Lyric poems appeal to our senses and emotions. They are personal subjective poems. You choose words and phrases carefully and set the mood for a lyric poem. Lyric poems can rhyme or be free verse.
 * 12) Simile is a literary device that compares two things using like or as.
 * 13) Cinquains are similar to Haiku’s they use five lines, but the number of syllables are successive lines starting with two, four, six, eight, and two.