Poetry Week 1 Vocabulary

An example of an ALLITERATION would be...

• What was that said the cat as he smacked the fat mat

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore

• The fat cat sat wearing a brand new hat

• Where is the tare, snared the hair

What is a LINE is a poem?

• a unit of meaning

• a repetition of patterns

• a repetition of sounds

What is a STANZA?

• the words at the end of each line

• the space between lines

• When things rhyme

• Lines that are grouped together

Which is an example of RHYME?

• Piper picked a pack pf pickled peppers

• Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse san up the clock

• Trinkle , twinkle little star

What is a Rhyme Scheme?

• Then words start with the same letters

• The pattern of rhyme in a poem

  (aabb or abab)

• When they use the same word over and over again

What is a poem

• a piece of writing often having a rhyme

  or rhythm which tells a story or

  describes a feeling

• A really good narration in a book

• A really good movie that I saw yesterday

A FREE VERSE is

• a type or rapping

• a biography

• Poetry that has a regular rhyme

• poetry that does not have a regular

  pattern of rhythm or rhyme

An example of literal language is...

• Well don't get your knickers in a stwist

• It's so hot that I am going to explode

• It is raining cats and dogs

• I like dogs.

Characters are

• The location of a person's birthday party

• The houses people live in, in the story

• the people or animals that act like

  people in poems that tell a story

An example of an allegory is...

• The news

• The tortuous and the hair

• My last research project