Poetry

JourneysTheme 4, Focus on Genre , Day

1Taught By: Mr. Williams

MysteriesOrganization•Lines of a poem may be short, shaped, or

organized into stanzas.

•The poet may punctuate and capitalize as they see fit.

•Writing in a poem may also not follow the traditional left to write top to bottom format.

Rhythm & Rhyme…• Rhythm relates to the regular pattern of

beats and pacing in poetry or music.

•Rhyme relates to the repetition of ending sounds in words throughout a poem.

•Alliteration relates to the repetition of beginning sounds in words throughout a poem.

Figurative Language•Similes are when two or more objects are

compared using the words “like” or “as”.

•Metaphors are when two or more objects are compared without using the words “like” or “as”.

•Onomatopoeia is when a word imitates the sound it is describing.

Comprehension Skill:Understanding Plays

Comprehension Skill:Understanding Poetry

How is the wind addressed in the

first poem?

How are rhyming words used in the

second poem?

How are the images of the wind different in the two poems?

Wind Poems

beats

imagery

lines

repetition

rhyme

stanzasHomework! Oh, Homework!

I hate you! You stink!I wish I could wash you away in

the sink,if only a bomb

would explode you to bits.Homework! Oh, homework!

You're giving me fits.

I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,

or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,

eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,

than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.

Homework! Oh, homework!you're last on my list,

I simple can't seewhy you even exist,

if you just disappearedit would tickle me pink.

Homework! Oh, homework!I hate you! You stink!

Jack Prelutsky

• beats– The stressed syllables in a

line of poetry

• imagery– Word pictures created through

the use of vivid figurative language.

• lines– Rows of words

• repetition– A repeating pattern of the

sounds or words

• rhyme– Agreement in the final sounds

of words

• stanzas– Groups of lines that divide

a poem into parts

Key Poetry Vocabulary

Poetry

JourneysTheme 4, Focus on Genre , Day

2Taught By: Mr. Williams

beats

imagery

lines

repetition

rhyme

stanzasHomework! Oh, Homework!

I hate you! You stink!I wish I could wash you away in

the sink,if only a bomb

would explode you to bits.Homework! Oh, homework!

You're giving me fits.

I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,

or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,

eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,

than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.

Homework! Oh, homework!you're last on my list,

I simple can't seewhy you even exist,

if you just disappearedit would tickle me pink.

Homework! Oh, homework!I hate you! You stink!

Jack Prelutsky

• beats– The stressed syllables in a

line of poetry

• imagery– Word pictures created through

the use of vivid figurative language.

• lines– Rows of words

• repetition– A repeating pattern of the

sounds or words

• rhyme– Agreement in the final sounds

of words

• stanzas– Groups of lines that divide

a poem into parts

Key Poetry Vocabulary