National Limerick Day

What is a limerick?

• A song

• a type of poem

• a novel

• a folktale

Check the characteristics of a limerick poem.

• serious

• a rhyming poem

• funny or nonsensical

• 5 lines

• The first, second and fifth lines rhyme, the third and fourth lines rhyme.

Who is a famous limerick writer?

• Tom James

• Dr. Suess

• Edward Lear

• Tom Sawyer

There are 3 long lines

-The first, second and fifth

and 2 short lines

-the third and fourth

• True

• False

Your turn: Write your own 5 line nonsensical limerick.

Here is mine

There was a girl,

with oh so many curls,

She loved the trees

but boy did she sneeze,

the girl with so many curls.

Have fun!!!

The poem must rhyme to be a Limerick?

• True

• False

May 12 is National Limerick Day.

• True

• False