Alliteration Poetry J. T. Barber Second Grade

Vocabulary:  alliteration: is the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”. The first letter, p, is a consonant. It is repeated many times.

Rhyme…  rhyme: A poem that has the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines. "Hour" rhymes with "power." Help Reggie Rhyme…

stanza…  stanza: A group of lines that makes up a division of a poem

repetition  repetition: The act or process of repeating  Inside the ocean I see fish. Inside the waves I hear a splash. Inside the water I felt a fish. It seems so big, as big as a whale. It has to be, But then I see, It's a tuna fish. 

couplet…  couplet: A couplet is a poem made of two lines of rhyming poetry. Two words that rhyme can be called a couplet. My friend has eyes like mud. He always chews his cud. And does it not seem hard to you, When all th sky is clear and blue.

line…  line: poems are usually made up of lines. Lines may be organized in stanzas. And dress by yellow candle-light.

poet…  poet: A writer of poems. Shel Silverstein Maya Angelou

rhyme Scheme…  rhyme scheme: An orderly arrangement or combination, a pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. This short poem illustrates the labeling of a rhyme scheme. There once was a big brown cat a That liked to eat a lot of mice. b He got all round and fat a Because they tasted so nice. b

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