Literary Forms and Poetry

• What is Free verse? Poetry that does not rhyme.
• What is Rhyme? Rhyming words are words that have the same ending sounds.
Examples of rhyming words are cat, hat, bat, mat, fat and rat.
• What is a Haiku? A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
• What is Alliteration? Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound.
For example, “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases.
• What is Onomatopoeia? onomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.
Examples: “Zip goes the jacket”
” Zip” is an onomatopoeia word because it sounds like a jacket is zipping up.
• What is a stanza? A stanza is a group of lines of poetry.
Example Poem: red= first stanza, blue=second stanza

I Love To Write Poems

I love to write
Day and night
What would my heart do
But cry, sigh and be blue
If I could not write

Writing feels good
And I know it should
Who could have knew
That what I do
Is write, write, write

– Unknown Author

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