PoetryPlease

jump on the bandwagon

• to do something because many other people are doing it
• to join a rock band
• to exercise each day
• to work on a farm or in agriculture

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

bark up the wrong tree

• to have the wrong idea about something
• to go hunting but not find anything
• to search for a missing cat
• to be angry with a friend

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What are the red letters an example of?
The people along the sand (A)
All turn and look one way. (B)
They turn their back on the land. (A)
They look at the sea all day. (B)
As long as it takes to pass (C)
A ship keeps raising its hull; (C)
The wetter ground like glass (D)
Reflects a standing gull. (D)

• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What are the red words an example of?

^{_{For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams}}

• Internal rhyme
• End rhyme
• Accidental rhyme
• Extended metaphor

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the sentence below show?
This bag weighs a ton.

• Onomatopoeia 
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration 

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the red word an example of?
Boom! The door shut suddenly after Jake walked outside. 

• Alliteration 
• Personification 
• Repetition
• Onomatopoeia 

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What do the red words show? 
While I nodded, nearly
napping, suddenly there
came a tapping...

• Personification 
• Alliteration 
• Repetition
• Refrain 

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

When you annotate your poem do all of the following EXCEPT:

• Number your lines

• Bracket your stanzas

• underline the last word in lines 1-8

• draw a picture of the poem

• Bor or circle the title

All of these are types of figurative language EXCEPT:

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Obnoxious

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Why do people use figurative language?

• To be grammatically correct.

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasize and idea and make a point.

• To structure their writing into paragraphs.

• Because it sounds nice in songs.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3