1. Mrs. Williams 5 th Grade ELA 2014-2015

2.  Personification- giving human qualities to nonliving objects-i.e.-The trees reached out to me as I walked through the woods.

3.  Imagery- a vivid description using words that appeal to the reader’s sense of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch  i. e.- The aroma of the sizzling, hot pizza filled my nostrils as I entered the room.

4.  Onomatopoeia- sound words- i.e.- Pow! Bang! Shhhh

5.  Couplet- two line poem that rhymes at the end of each line, has same amount of syllables in each line and is usually about something silly: i.e.  I saw a brown dog,  Standing on a hog.

6.  Line- the way poetry is written, several lines make a stanza; like sentences make a paragraph- i.e.  What would my heart do?  But cry, sigh and be blue.

7.  Stanza- lines of verse forming a separate unit within a poem; like a paragraph-i.e.  I love to write,  day and night.  What would my heart do,  but cry, sigh and be blue  if I could not write?  Writing feels good,  and I know it should.  Who could have knew  that what I do,  is write, write, write!

8.  Haiku- a traditional Japanese, three-line, unrhymed poem with seventeen syllables--written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature-i.e.  The last winter leaves Clinging to the black branches Explode into birds.

9.  Simile- a vivid comparison of two unlike objects, using the words like, as, than or resembles- i.e.-  The snow is as white as sheep’s wool.

10.  Metaphor- a vivid comparison of two unlike objects, not using the words like, as, than or resembles- i.e.-  The snow is sheep’s wool. 

11.  Narrative poem- poetry that tells a story or gives an account of events, long poem with many stanzas, tells story from beginning to end

12.  Meter- the regular arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry- i.e.  U U S U S U U S U S  On a win-dy night when the moon is bright.  U- unstressed  S- stressed

13.  Alliteration- the repetition on the same sound or letter in a series of words, usually at the beginning of the word and is a consonant letter i.e.- She sells seashells down at the seashore. 