1. What is rhyme?
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
(A word always rhymes with itself.)
LAMP
STAMP
Share the short “a” vowel sound
Share the combined “mp” consonant sound
Activity: Rhyme group game

2. What is a Rhyming Poem? *A line is a single row of words in a poem.
A rhyming poem is a verse poem that contains rhyming words at the end of certain lines.
Example: Night time by Lee Bennet Hopkins
How do dreams know
when to creep
into my head
when I fall off
to Sleep?

3. RHYME SCHEME
A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).
Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next slide for an example.)
Activity: Rhyme Scheme group game

4. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME The Monster Chef
The monster chef cooked up a meal,
Of spotted toad and speckled eel.
He threw some socks into a pot
And boiled buttons piping hot. a b

5. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME The Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ. a b c

6. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet.
After tea she jumped in the sea
And got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Can you identify the rhyme scheme of this poem?

7. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet.
Rhyming words
Marty Smarty went to a party
In her jumbo jet.
After tea she jumped in the sea
And got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Can you identify the rhyme scheme of this poem?

8. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet.
After tea she jumped in the sea
And got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Rhyming words
Can you identify the rhyme scheme of this poem?

9. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet.
pattern
Marty Smarty went to a party
In her jumbo jet.
After tea she jumped in the sea
And got her pants all wet.
John Foster A B A B
Can you identify the rhyme scheme of this poem?

10. FREE VERSE POETRY cont. Does NOT have rhyme.
Very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. (no specific rhythm)
A more modern type of poetry.

11. FREE VERSE Winter Poem once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved
Nikki Giovanni
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower

12. FREE VERSE Vital Question Gordon & Bernice Korman
If a poem doesn’t rhyme –
How do you know
It’s a poem?
If it’s about sunsets and flowers, well okay.
But some of them might be about termites, and rats,
Cockroaches, earwigs, bedbugs
and silverfish,
Battalions of cooties,
And are more like the exterminator’s report
Than a poem.
So, how do you know it’s a poem
If it doesn’t rhyme?

13. LYRIC POETRY A short poem
Usually written in first person point of view
Expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene
Do not tell a story and are often musical

14. NARRATIVE POEMS A poem that tells a story.
Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot.
Examples of Narrative Poems
“The Raven”
“The Highwayman”
“Casey at the Bat”
“The Walrus and the Carpenter”
click titles of poems to be taken to websites….all recordings except “The Walrus…”

15. CONCRETE POEMS
In concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.
Poetry
Is like
Flames,
Which are
Swift and elusive
Dodging realization
Sparks, like words on the
Paper, leap and dance in the
Flickering firelight. The fiery
Tongues, formless and shifting
Shapes, tease the imiagination.
Yet for those who see,
Through their mind’s
Eye, they burn
Up the page.

16. What is alliteration?
When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Activity: Alliteration group game

17. What is repetition? Repeated words or phrases
Repetition of sounds, words, and ideas adds to the power and precision of poetry.
Sometimes the first line of the poem is repeated at the end.
Sometimes a word or phrases is repeated within the poem to enhance the rhythm.

18. What is onomatopoeia? Words that imitate the sound they are naming
BUZZ
ZIP

19. What is a simile? A comparison using “like” or “as”
It usually compares two dissimilar objects.
Example: My pillow is like a cloud.
Example: My pillow is as puffy as a cloud.

20. What is a metaphor? States that one thing is something else.
It is a comparison, but it does NOT use “like” or “as” to make the comparison.
Example: My pillow is a cloud.

21. What is personification?
Giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to an inanimate (non-living) object (thing, idea, or animal).
Example: The leaf danced in the wind.
The verb, danced, is a human action. A leaf is an inanimate object.

22. What is imagery?
The use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words, to create pictures or images in the reader’s mind
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell.
Involves one or more of your five senses
Example:
A mouse found a beautiful piece of plum cake,
The richest and sweetest that mortal could make;
‘Twas heavy with citron and fragrant with spice,
and covered with sugar all sparkling as ice.