Poetry Elements

Which one is not a characteristic of poetry?

• repeated lines

• problem and solution

• rhyme

• regular beat

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CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which type of beat would make a poem feel happy or silly?

• slow beat

• fast beat

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CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which type of beat would make a poem feel calm or sad?

• fast beat

• slow beat

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CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which set of words rhyme?

I love the world when it is green,

with fields of corn and climbing bean,

and rows of peppers in between.

• love, field, rows

• green, bean, between

• world, corn, peppers

• green, bean, peppers

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

In a poem, where do you usually find the rhyming words?

• at the beginning of a line

• in the middle of a line

• at the end of a line

• Wherever there is a strong beat

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

Which 2 words from these lines are compound words?

I love the world when it is red,

when scarlet leaves make mice a bed

and sunset crimson overhead.

• scarlet, sunset

• crimsons, scarlet

• sunset, overhead

• overhead, scarlet

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

I think mice

Are rather nice.

Their Tails are long,

Their faces small,

They haven't any

Chins at all.

They nibble things

They shouldn't touch

And no one seems

To like them much,

But I think mice are nice.

How do you know this is a poem?

• It rhymes

• it has short words

• it is funny

• it is about animals

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CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.K.5

I think mice

Are rather nice.

Their Tails are long,

Their faces small,

They haven't any

Chins at all.

They nibble things

They shouldn't touch

And no one seems

To like them much,

But I think mice are nice.

How are the 1st & 2nd lines the same as the last line?

• They say what the poet thinks about mice

• They tell why people do not like mice

• They tell how mice sneak around at night

• They describe what mice ears look like

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

I think mice

Are rather nice.

Their Tails are long,

Their faces small,

They haven't any

Chins at all.

What does the word small mean in line 4?

• kind

• large

• clean

• little

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which is a fact?

• poems are boring

• poems have a beat and rhyming words

• poems are hard to understand

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6