Poetry elements

What is 1st person point of view in poetry?

• The speaker uses the pronouns I, me, and my to tell the events in the poem.

• The speaker is a narrator who is not part of the events in the poem.

• The author is telling about his/her feelings.

• The speaker is a turkey.

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CCSS.RL.4.6

What is Alliteration?

• Words that rhyme

• Words that are homophones

• Two or more words that start with the same beginning sound.

• Two or more words about bugs

What is meter?

• Any poem about animals.

• The way we measure how long a poem is.

• The rhythm of the rhyming words and the syllables in a poem.

• The speaker in the poem

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CCSS.RL.4.5

What is a stanza?

• A poem with 1st person point of view

• A group of lines in a poem separated from other stanzas by a space

• A part of a poem that tells how the author feels

• A teacher who writes poetry

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Which is an example of a simile?

• On toothpick legs

  Swift and brittle

• I stick a stick in termite heaps

• Fireflies dance at dusk

• Teeth like jackhammers

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CCSS.L.4.5A

What is an example of metaphor?

• A brown boomerang, my dog flies off

• Like tents collapsed for storage

• I chew through concrete for fun

• The grasshopper springs and catches the summer wind

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CCSS.L.4.5A

What is an example of alliteration?

• Bats drowse in houses eaves

• He has a notion to outshout the Atlantic Ocean

• The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls

• Juicy June bugs, meaty moths

What is a Haiku?

• A poem with 3 stanzas and rhyming words

• A poem with 3 rhyming words that each have 3 syllables

• A poem with 3 lines that have 5-7-5 syllables

• A poem with 3 animals

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CCSS.RL.4.5

What is lyric poetry?

• A poem that has rhyming words, meter, and expresses feelings

• A poem that has 1st person point of view

• A poem that is about birds

• A poem with similes and metaphors

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CCSS.RL.4.5

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What is an example of an appositive?

• My favorite poem is Sandpiper.

• My favorite poem, Sandpiper, is a lyric poem.

• Sandpiper is my favorite poem.

• I like poems about the beach so Sandpiper is my favorite poem.