Genres

A diamante for the PDG Alumni Poetry Contest.

Comedy
funny, silly,
amusing, laughing, pleasing,
hilarious, foolish, disagreeable, awful,
frightening, alarming, terrifying,
fearful, repulsive,
Horror.

A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. The first line begins with a
noun/subject, and second line contains two adjectives that describe the beginning noun. The third line
contains three words ending in -ing relating to the noun/subject. The forth line contains two words that
describe the noun/subject and two that describe the closing synonym/antonym. If using an antonym for
the ending, this is where the shift should occur. In the fifth line are three more -ing words describing
the ending antonym/synonym, and the sixth are two more adjectives describing the ending
antonym/synonym. The last line ends with the first noun's antonym or synonym