1. Poetry is a way to put your feelings or expression into words.
Poetry Workshop
Poetry is a way to put your feelings or expression into words.

2. POETRY VOCABULARY End rhyme Repetition Alliteration Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
Free Verse

3. Repetition
Repetition is used to make an impact on the poem’s tone. Words or phrases are repeated throughout the poem.
Here comes summer,
Chirping robin, budding rose.
Gentle showers, summer clothes.
By Shel Silverstein

4. Alliteration My beautiful bubbles burst and then,
Alliteration uses the same beginning word sounds over and over, like a tongue twister.
My beautiful bubbles burst and then,
I simply blow some more again.
The setting sun slipped slowly down,
Making room for the milky moon.

5. Simile and Metaphor
Similes are comparisons that use “like” or “as.” Her eyes are as green as emeralds Clouds soft and fluffy like marshmallows.
Metaphors are comparisons that say one thing is another My father’s anger is a volcano about to blow.

6. Poems can be...
Free Verse
Rhyming

7. Free Verse Poems... Do not rhyme Do not have a pattern
Do not have a rhythm
Do not have a structure

8. Rhyming Poems... Rhyme May have a pattern Has a rhythm
May have a structure

9. Poetry Toolbox
Words
Rhythm
Punctuation
Stanzas
Refrain

10. Words Choose the absolute best words for your poem.
Use a thesaurus to replace dead words.
Think of your five senses; touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell.

11. Rhythm
Poems with rhythm usually contain rhyming words at the ends of lines
Specific syllables are stressed
The rhyming follows a pattern
Rhyming dictionaries are helpful to create rhythm

12. Punctuation Is used to show the reader how to read the poem
May not have any punctuation
May have commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation points
Needs to be consistent

13. Stanzas A divided section with a group of lines
A format chosen by the poet
May include a rhyming pattern

14. Refrain Repetitive line found throughout the poem
Is usually found in the same place in each stanza
Similar to the chorus in a song

15. Since Hanna Moved Away The tires on my bike are flat…
The sky is grouchy gray.
At least it sure feels like that
Since Hanna moved away.
Chocolate ice cream tastes like prunes.
December’s come to stay.
They’ve taken back the Mays and Junes
Since Hanna moved away
Flowers smell like halibut.
Velvet feels like hay.
Every handsome dog’s a mutt
Since Hanna moved away.
Nothing’s fun to laugh about.
Nothing’s fun to play.
They call me, but I won’t come out
Judith Viorst

16. Try one of these possible refrains
On my way to school today
I think I’ll stay in bed
And that was that
If you ask me
Why does it have to be me?
I laughed and giggled all day
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