Elements & Features of Poetry

Here are our notes from class today to help you study for the reading comprehension & vocabulary test we will take this Friday. Don't forget to study the first 6 vocabulary words (beats, rhyme, lines, pattern, rhythm, stanzas) on the list the students received Tuesday for the test too!

Elements & Features of Poetry

1. Rhyming words
Example Poems:
- Sneeze tease/sneeze, tickle/ nickel/ prickle/pickle
- Joe: Joe/snow, seeds/breeds, wait/late
- Cloud Dragons: high/sky/by, me/see, blue/do
- Spaghetti: please/cheese, squiggle/ wriggle/wiggle, mound/ around, stuff/enough, great/plate
- Andre: awake/take, too/do, glad/had
- The Bat: sky/fly
- Show Fish: swell/tell/spell/smell/well
2. Rhythm
Example Poem:
- April Rain Song (sounds like rain)
- Sneeze (builds up as the poem gets to the end)
- Andre
3. Repeated words
Example Poems:
- April Rain Song (Let the rain . ., The rain . . )
- Giraffe: stilts
- Spaghetti: spaghetti
- Andre: I had
- Show Fish: school, show and tell
4. Shape Poems
Giraffe - forms the shape of a giraffe
The Bat - the words upside down are written upside down
5. Alliteration - repeated sound/consonant at the beginning of words in a poem
Giraffe: tree-tall giraffe
April Rain Song: liquid...lullaby
Spaghetti: spaghetti, slurpy, squiggle, sauce
The Bat: mobile/mammal/mugs/myriad, batty bat
Show Fish: found, flounder, school, show, smell