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4th Grade Poetry Unit

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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POETRY UNIT

4TH GRADE
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CHARACTERISTICS OF POETRY

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RHYTHM

A REPEATED PATTERN OF SOUND
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RHYME

SIMILAR SOUNDING WORDS, ESPECIALLY AT THE END OF LINES IN POETRY
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Example:
The chocolate was very sweet. It's my favorite treat.

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MOOD

A FEELING THAT THE POEM CREATES
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Examples:

Loving, fearful, peaceful, happy, sad, angry

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SHAPE

Stanza: a section of a poem usually consisting of four or more lines.

Concrete poetry: Poems written in the shape of the object being described.

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THIS IS A CONCRETE POEM!

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

LET'S EXPLORE WHAT THAT MEANS.........
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PERSONIFICATION

GIVING HUMAN QUALITIES TO A NONHUMAN THING
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Example:

The snow gracefully danced to the ground.

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HYPERBOLE

AN EXTREME EXAGGERATION
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Examples:

I will die if I don't get an iPhone for my birthday!

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

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SIMILE

COMPARING TWO THINGS USING "LIKE" OR "AS".
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METAPHOR

COMPARING TWO THINGS WITHOUT USING "LIKE" OR "AS"
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Examples:

The baseball was a bullet through the glove.

The scoreboard screamed the score as the game was over.

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