Exploring Poetry

Poetry with no rhythm, no rhyme, no structure, or no rules.

• Non-Fiction

• Free Verse

• Lyrical

• Stanzas

Poems that have characters, simple problem/solution, and are usually funny.

• Stanza

• Trickster tails

• Narrative Poem

• Free verse

A group of lines in poetry. They are "mini paragraphs."

• Lines

• Stanzas

• Poet

• Free verse

Tone

• How the poet feels about the topic.

• The number of lines.

• whether the poem has rhyme

• How the poet feels about the weather

Lyrical Poem

• How the reader feels about the topic

• Author of the poem

• A poem that rhymes and describes the poet's feelings and thoughts

• A love song

Author of a poem

• Play wright

• First person point of view

• Poet

• Stanza

When two or more lines end with the same sound

• Rhyme

• Lines

• Free Verse

• Poet

What gives poems a unique rhythm. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in words.

• Meter

• Narrative

• Poet

• Poem

A form of writing, often rhymes that tells a story or describes a person, place, feeling or event.

• Science

• Tone

• Stanza

• Poetry

Read the poem, "The Silliest Teacher in School". What type of poem is it?

The Silliest Teacher in School

BY DARREN SARDELLI

Our teacher gave detention

to the fountains in the hall.

She handed extra homework

to the artwork on the wall.

We saw her point a finger

at a banner and a sign.

She said their bad behavior

was completely out of line.

The principal approached her

and said, “What is all this fuss?

I heard you tried to punish

all the tires on a bus.

“You’ve made the teachers angry

by disrupting all their classes,

so if you want to keep this job,

you have to wear your glasses!”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/145940/the-silliest-teacher-in-school

• Free Verse

• Narrative

• Lyrical