Poetry Practice

Which is an example of repetition?

Words that show sound: Snap! Crackle! Pop!

• alliteration

• repetition

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

This is Just to Say

by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten

the plums

that were in the icebox

and which

you are probably

saving for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet and so cold!

How many stanzas does this poem have?

When a poet repeats sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem.

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• theme

The pattern of rhymes. A letter is assigned to each end of the line. If it rhymes with another end line, it has the same letter.

• Meter

• Rhyme Scheme

• Alliteration

Which line from the poem helps the reader imagine how the wind feels and sounds?

• And blow the birds about the sky

• But always you yourself hid

• I felt you push, I heard you call

• Are you a best of field and tree

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

• AABB

• ABCB

• ABAB

What is a stanza in a poem?

• The sensory and figurative language used in a poem.

• Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words.

• The “paragraph” of poetry. Several lines in one unit.

• The patterned recurrence of sounds, usually made by stressed or unstressed syllables.

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4