What are the Different Elements Between Poems with Rhythm, Rhyme, and Alliteration?

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What are the Different Elements Between Poems
with Rhythm, Rhyme, and Alliteration?

• Learning about the use and special features of
  poetry.

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Overview Of The Lesson

• You will be taught the form and use of and
  special features of poetry.
• You will be provided with many examples.
• You will then be tested to see how well you can
  read and identify these different kinds of
  poetry.

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Poetry Form

• Poems are made up of lines, which they call
  stanza.
• Im Nobody! Who are you?
• Are you NobodyToo?
• Then theres a pair of us!
• Dont tell! Theyd advertise
• you know!

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THREE ELEMENTS

• Line Length
• Punctuation
• Sentence Structure

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LINE LENGTH

• Poets sometimes put lines in different lengths to
  show emotion.
• Long lines show drama, energy, or force
• Short lines sometimes show calmness, or quiet.

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PUNCUATION

• You see a lot of poems that dont use traditional
  punctuation, like capitals, or periods.
• This is done usually to express the emotion of
  the poet.
• Shadows on the wall
• Noises down the hall
• Life doesnt frighten me at all
• Bad dogs barking loud
• Big ghosts in a cloud
• Life doesnt frighten me at all.

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SENTENCE STRUCTURE

• Poets form their sentences a particular way to
  emphasize a certain part.
• Look at this one.
• I heard a lonely sound in the night
• In the night, I heard a lonely sound

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SOUND

• The sound of a poem helps to express the meaning
  and emotions of it.
• The sound of poetry comes in three ways
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Alliteration

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What is a Rhyming Poem?

• A rhyming poem is a verse poem that contains
  rhyming words at the end of certain lines.
• Example Night time by Lee Bennet Hopkins
  
• How do dreams know
• when to creep
• into my head
• when I fall off
• to Sleep?

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Types of Rhyming Poems

• There are many types of rhyming poems. Here are
  names of some of them.
• The Couplet
• The Limerick
• The Ballad Stanza (including the short and long)
• Octaves

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An Example of a Limerick

• What is a limerick, Mother?
• It's a form of verse, said brother
• In which lines one and two
• Rhyme with five when it's through
• And three and four rhyme with each other.
• author unknown

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The Purpose of Rhyming Poems

• Rhyming poems are used mainly for humor. These
  poems are fun to read.
• Lets see some more poems with rhymes.

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A Rhyming Poem

• Marty Smarty went to a party
• In her jumbo jet.
• After tea she jumped in the sea
• And got her pants all wet.
• John Foster

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More Rhymes

• Spaghetti! Spaghetti
• Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
• Youre wonderful stuff,
• I love you, spaghetti,
• I cant get enough.
• Youre covered with sauce
• And youre sprinkled with cheese,
• Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
• Oh, give me some please.
• Jack Prelutsky

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What is Alliteration?

• A poem with alliteration repeats the initial
  consonant sounds closely together.
• Example Sheila Shorter sought a suitor
• Shelia sought a suitor short.
• Sheilas suitor sure to suit her
• Shorts the suitor Sheila sought!
• by Michael Rosen

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The Purpose of Alliteration Poems

• Alliteration poems tend to be tongue twisters.
  They are written for the fun they bring when they
  are read.
• Lets see more poems with alliteration.

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An Alliteration Poem
Down the slippery slide they slid Sitting
slightly sideways Slipping swiftly see them
skid On holidays and Fridays.
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Another Alliteration Poem

• A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.
• Said the fly to the flea, What shall we do?
• Lets fly, said the flea.
• Lets flee, said the fly.
• So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.

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More Tongue Twisters

• Night, night, Knight, said one Knight
• to the other knight the other night.
• Night, night, Knight.

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Super Tongue Twister!

• Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood.
  Oh, the wood that Wood would saw! One day Esau
  Wood saw a saw saw wood as no other woodsaw Wood
  ever saw would saw wood. Of all the woodsaws
  Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood never saw a woodsaw
  that would saw wood like the woodsaw Wood saw
  would saw wood. Now Esau Wood saws with that saw
  he saw saw wood.

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What is Rhythm?

• Any poem has the chance of having rhythm.
• A poem has rhythm if the reader of the poem gives
  the poem rhythm.
• For a poem to have rhythm, it has to be read
  following a pattern with its syllables. For
  example
• da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da,
• da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da.

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Example of Rhythm

• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
• Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
• and of all the kings horses and all of the
• Kings men
• couldnt put Humpty Dumpty together
• again.

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Practice Your Rhythm

• Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
• Ankylosaurus was built like a tank,
• Its hide was a fortress as sturdy as steel,
• It tended to be an inedible meal.
• It was armored in front, it was armored behind,
• There wasnt a thing on its minuscule mind,
• It waddled about on its four stubby legs,
• Nibbling on plants with a mouthful of pegs.
• Ankylosaurus was best left alone,
• Its tail was a cudgel of gristle and bone,
• Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
• Ankylosaurus was built like a tank.
  
• By Jack Prelutsky

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More Rhythm Practice

• Iguanodon, Iguanodon,
• Whatever made you fade,
• Youve traveled on, Iguanodon,
• We wish you could have stayed.
• Iguanodon, Iguanodon,
• Weve sought you everywhere,
• Both here and yon, Iguanodon,
• But failed to find you there.
• Iguanodon, Iguanodon,
• You were a gentle kind,
• But now youre gone, Iguanodon,
• And left your bones behind. By Jack Prelutsky

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Time For Review!

• What are the three forms of a poem?
• What is a rhyme? Give me an example.
• What is rhythm? Give me an example.
• What is alliteration? Give me an example.