poetry examples
curving up then down
meeting blue sky and green earth
melding sun with rain
What is Haiku?
This type of poem has no set rhyme scheme and no set meter (rhythm).
What is Free Verse?
Mrs. Randazzo is as sweet as candy.
What is a simile?
What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
These are the words that rhyme.
What are yellow and mellow?
True or False
Mrs. Randazzo has been at SunRidge since we opened.
true
there once was a boy named Zack
who had a frog on his back
the frog with his friend
until its sweet end
when the frog had a heart attack
What is a Limerick?
This type of poem is composed of pairs of rhyming lines.
What is a Couplet?
Mrs. Randazzo's classes are rockstars.
What is a metaphor?
He jumped so high, high, high
He touched the sky, sky, sky
The words "high" and "sky" are demonstrating this poetic device.
What is repetition?
This is Mrs. Randazzo's room number.
505
Mrs. Randazzo is so smart
and she has a big heart
What is a Couplet?
This type of nature poem has three lines and a total of 17 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
The bell announced the beginning of summer.
What is personification?
The is the break of words that you count in a haiku.
syllable
True or False
Mrs. Randazzo has only taught 6th grade language arts.
true
Summer
students will leave
get on the bus
wave at their teachers
cry
miss their classes
especially language arts
and Mrs. Randazzo
they'll eat ice cream
and go to the pool
maybe Disney
or Universal
but they will never forget
their time in room 505
What is Free Verse?
This type of poem has four lines with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, ABBA, ABCB, or AABB.
What is a Quatrain?
Mrs. Randazzo's classes cried buckets of tears when they said goodbye.
What is hyperbole?
Swish, swish, swish,
Went the little goldfish
As he swam around his bowl.
"Swish" is an example of this sound device.
What is onomatopoeia?
Mrs. Randazzo's husband wrote and sang the theme song to this tv show.
My Babysitter's a Vampire
It's almost here
the last day of school
students will play
and go to the pool
What is a Quatrain?
This type of humorous poem has five lines with a rhyme scheme of AABBA and lines Three and Four having fewer syllables than lines One, Two, and Five.
What is a Limerick?
Mrs. Randazzo's righteous room
What is an alliteration?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
This is the line that best exemplifies imagery.
What is "But when the leaves hang trembling" (Line 3)?
Mrs. Randazzo is from this state or area.
Virginia/DC (either is correct)