Poetry

Has usually rhyming stanzas made up of two lines; may be serious or humorous.

In the poem Green Eggs and Ham, SAM is a

Lines that are grouped together (usually each has the same number of lines)

The people or animals that act like people in poems that tell a story.

Boom, whisper, clap, slurp, bang, fizz are all examples of

poetry that does not have a regular pattern of rhythm or rhyme

The Grinch hated Christmas!
The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why.
No one quite knows the __________

a piece of writing often having a rhyme or rhythm which tells a story or
describes a feeling

a way in which you express yourself by saying exactly what you mean

A single metrical line of poetry

A phrase or line repeats throughout the poem?

The pattern of rhyme in a poem
Ex. aabb or abab

The repetition of sounds at the end of lines or with in lines (pattern)

Where words close to each other begin with the same letter.?

Little Daddy Longlegs played in the sun,
Climbing up the front steps just for fun.

This is an example of a

A unit of meaning (one word, one phrase, or a sentence)

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
This is an example of

I bought a black banana,
And a broken baseball bat.
A burst balloon, a busted boat,
A beat-up bowler hat.
This is an example of

A poem is a busy bee
Buzzing in your head.
His hive is full of hidden thoughts
Waiting to be said.

His honey comes from your ideas
That he makes into rhyme.
He flies around looking for
What goes on in your mind.

When it's time to let him out
To make some poetry,
He gathers up your secret thoughts
And then he sets them free.

How many stanzas are in the poem?

A word which sounds like it describes?