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1. Traditional
2. Organic
3. Limerick
4. Concrete
5. Haiku
6. Epic Simile
7. Extended Metaphor
8. Acrostic
9. Sonnet
10. Personification
11. Diamante
12. Irony

Examples are sonnets, limericks, acrostics, etc.

A direct comparison of two different things

An Italian poem in the shape of a diamond

Poetry that is freer in structure.

Examples are irony and epic simile

A multiple line poem that uses human traits to describe an inanimate object

Pay attention to initial letters of each line

It is not simply something unexpected or a character experiencing bad luck

The poem's rhyme scheme is aabba

Outline and Drawing are examples

A word or phrase is spelled when read vertically

Follows the syllabic structure of 5-7-5

a 3-line Japanese poem highlighting a moment in time in nature

Poetry with a set meter, rhyme scheme, and lines or stanzas.

Usually written in iambic pentameter

a 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme such as ababcdcdefefgg

A poem that makes the reader expect one thing, but the opposite is true in reality

A 16-word poem that follows a set pattern of words

A multi-line comparison of two unlike things using like or as

A short, comical poem containing 5 lines

A poem that humanizes an object, animal, or idea

This poem may use than to illustrate the comparison

A poem that manipulates the words and white space to create an image

A drawn out comparison of two unlike items