1. Structural Elements of Poetry

2. Important Vocabulary verse/stanza rhyme scheme imagery

3. Stanza/Verse a stanza/verse is like a paragraph in a poem a group of lines in a poem that go together a poem can have multiple stanzas or verses stanzas or verses are separated by a blank line

4. How many stanzas? I threw a small water balloon. That’s all. I hid. I tossed. I ran. My victim knows, and lies in wait with the garden hose. Three stanzas/verses

5. Imagery a poet often writes poems to create word pictures it is the readers job to create the pictures in their minds when they read the poems it is sometimes a puzzle to figure out what the poet is describing

6. Imagery A crow stole the cone and six tiny sparrows hopped vanilla footprints across the sidewalk. What event is this poem describing? What happened to the ice cream cone someone dropped

7. Rhyme Scheme a rhyme scheme describes in letters the pattern that the poems follows each line of the poem is assigned a letter that matches the other line it rhymes with EX. AABB or ABAB etc.

8. Name the Rhyme Scheme http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-462.html AABB

9. Name the Rhyme Scheme I saw a very pretty dog But he was a bit cautious He had gotten lost in the fog And now was a bit nauseous ABAB

10. Name the Rhyme Scheme http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-286.html AABB

11. Watch following Brain Pop AND....be ready for the quiz that follows!! http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/poetry/