2. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Poetry in Motion Mr. Wilson’s 7 th grade Language Arts

3. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Couplet and Quatrain couplet a pair of rhyming lines. quatrain a stanza containing four lines.

4. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Repetition and all its forms Repetition Alliteration Assonance Consonance www.jackprelutsky.com/ Repeated use Initial sounds Vowel sounds Final consonants

5. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Repetition repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis.

6. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Alliteration repetition of initial sounds, e.g., picked a peck of pickled peppers.

7. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Assonance repetition of vowel sounds, e.g., mad hatter.

8. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Consonance repetition of final consonant sounds, e.g., east/west

9. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Listen for examples

10. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Popular Children’s Poet: Jack Prelutsky First U.S. Children's Poet Laureate Born Sept. 8, 1940 Born in Brooklyn, New York Click on the picture of Jack for more information See credits for source of picture and information

11. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Line Structure of a Haiku Haiku - a 17-syllable,delicate, unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature. five syllables seven syllables five syllables

12. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Limericks Limerick: A 5-lined, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous.

13. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Elements of a Limerick: rhyme rhythm meter

14. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Rhyme recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of verse.

15. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Rhythm the recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses

16. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Meter a fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm.

17. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers What have you learned? What will you choose? You are going to take a quiz about poetry You will write a poem The form of poetry is up to you

18. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Choices of Previous Class

19. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers What is a haiku? A. A. Two lines of poetry that rhyme B. B. Repeating vowel sounds in a stanza C. C. A 17 syllable poem D. D. A poem with a rhyming pattern of AABBA

20. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers What is a limerick? A. 17 syllable poem A. B. B. Two rhyming lines in a poem C. Four rhyming lines in a poemC. D. D. A poem with a rhyming pattern of AABBA

21. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers What is a couplet? A. 17 syllable poem A. B. B. Two rhyming lines in a poem C. Four rhyming lines in a poemC. D. A poem with a rhyming pattern of AABBAD.

22. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers What is a quatrain? A. 17 syllable poem A. B. B. Two rhyming lines in a poem C. Four rhyming lines in a poemC. D. D. A poem with a rhyming pattern of AABBA

23. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers What is alliteration? A. The repetition of the same beginning word sound A. B. Two rhyming lines in a poemB. C. Four rhyming lines in a poemC. D. A poem with a rhyming pattern of AABBAD. Click here after answering question

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27. Locust Grove Middle School Trailblazers Credits http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_meet.htm In the Small, Small Pond. Weston Woods (2001). Retrieved March 15, 2008, from unitedstreaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ www.jackprelutsky.com/