1. Created by Beth Bartholomew 5 th grade teacher Richland Elementary School

2.  It is a form of writing that uses not only words, but ◦ Form ◦ Imagery ◦ Patterns of sound ◦ Figurative language … to share strong feelings or a powerful message/ theme.

3.  A poem’s form is its shape or what it looks like.  Poems are divided into lines.  Lines are usually grouped into stanzas.  Stanzas function like paragraphs in a story.

4.  Poets use words that appeal to the reader’s senses – sight, sound, smell, touch and taste – to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.

5.  Alliteration  Rhyme  Rhythm  Repetition

6.  The repetition of beginning consonant sounds of a series of words. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

7. She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains and the sea The friendly welcome of the wayside well

8.  The repetition of same or similar sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the end of a line.

9. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”

10.  The pattern of stresses or beats in a poem.  Poets use patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables to create a musical rhythm in a poem.  Poets often use rhythm to create a certain mood.

11.  Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.

12.  The repeating of certain sounds or words to create a certain effect.  Poets often repeat words to emphasize their importance.

13. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

14.  Similes  Metaphors  Onomatopoeia  Personification

15.  The comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

16. My mom is like a fire. She's always warm, but sometimes she gets too hot. My brother is like a tornado. He always moves fast and spreads destruction wherever he goes. My sister is like a snowstorm. She's pretty to look at and icy at times, but with a little bit of sunshine, that iciness melts. Together we are like a partly cloudy day. We have our moments of darkness and gloom, but the sun always peeks through. 

17.  The comparison of two unlike items by saying one item is the other.

18. The wind is now a roaring, smashing monster of destruction, raking all man's work from the valleys, from the vales, and sends them spinning, broken flying - 

19.  A word that resembles the sound it represents.  Crash!  Bang!  Boom!  Thud!

20. Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; Tlot tlot, tlot tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hooves, ringing clear; Tlot tlot, tlot tlot,in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear?

21.  Gives human characteristics to animals, objects, etc. Winter With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath, laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet and then whispered in my ear right to the drum that echoed in my brain with excruciating pain.