3rd Grade Poetry

Labeling Poem

100

The rows within a poem are called

Lines

200

A group of lines within a poem is called a

Stanza

300

What point of view is this poem told in... My dog plays invisible Frisbee. He catches invisible balls. He rides an invisible skateboard. He hurdles invisible walls. My dog has perfected the practice of doing invisible tricks. He jumps with invisible jumpropes and fetches invisible sticks.

1st person

400

What point of view is this poem told in... The tighty-whity spider went down the waterslide. Got a water wedgie halfway down the ride. Jumped up and screamed and ran around in pain. Now the tighty-whity spider will not do that again.

What is third person

500

What point of view is this poem told in? The record, so far, for the world's biggest burp, is held by Belinda Melinda McNurp. It wasn't on purpose. She wasn't to blame. Her tummy just rumbled, and out the burp came. Her mother and father both covered their ears. Her brother and sister were nearly in tears. Her puppy looked panicked and yipped as he fled. Her kitten just cowered and covered his head.

What is third person

Types of Poetry

100

The beat of the poem is heard in a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

What is rhythm

200

The pattern of rhymes within the poem. 

(I met a dragon face to face

The year when I was ten

I took a trip to outer space

I braved a pirate's den.

What is rhyme scheme

300

Words, phrases or lines are repeated, usually to show importance

What is repetition

400

This type of poem is written to be funny

What is humorous

500

Words that have the same ending sound and are usually found at the end of a line

What is rhymes

Figurative Language

100

What type of figurative language does the line below contain...and why? The toast jumped out of the toaster.

What is personification, because humans jump

200

What type of figurative language does the line below contain...and why? This job is a piece of cake.

What is idiom...it has non literal

300

What type of figurative language does the line below contain...and why? He eyes sparkled bright like stars twinkling in the sky!

What is a simile, because it uses "like" or "as" to compare TWO things

400

What type of figurative language does the line below contain...and why? My mom said my bedroom could have been a pigsty!

What is a metaphor, because two things are compared WITHOUT using like or as.

500

What type of figurative language does the line below contain...and why? Samuel ate some salty, slimy salmon for supper.

What is alliteration, because the same beginning sound is repeated over and over again.