Poetry
The Eagle
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
How many stanzas are in this poem?
2
Buzz, meow, beep
Onomatopoeia
A made-up story, like a fun game with words, where the events and characters are imagined by the author, not real.
Fiction
Where and when the story takes place.
Setting
Put in alphabetical order:
Ants
Apples
Bees
Bears
Ants
Apples
Bears
Bees
The Eagle
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
How many lines are in this poem?
6
As tall as a giraffe.
Simile
Books that tell you about real things, people, places, and events, rather than making up stories.
Nonfiction
True or false: Plot is made up of the conflict (the main problem that the characters face) and resolution (how the conflict or problem is solved).
True
To make a picture in your mind, like watching a movie in your head, even if your eyes are closed.
The Eagle
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
What figurative language is in line 1?
Alliteration
He is a shining star.
Metaphor
A story about someone's life, written by someone else, telling about their important events, achievements, and experiences.
Biography
The big idea or lesson a story is trying to teach you, like friendship or bravery.
Theme
A group of sentences that all talk about the same topic or idea.
Paragraph
The Dolly
by Jeanette Cheal
The dolly sat upon the shelf
in the toy maker’s shop all by herself.
What figurative language does this poem have?
Personification
Repetition
A story about your life, written by you.
Autobiography
The order in which things happen, like the steps in a recipe or the events in a story.
Sequence
A group of lines that are put together to form a section within a poem, often separated by a blank line.
Stanza
Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown
How good to lie a little while
And look up through the tree!
The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me.
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABAB
The stars winked in the night sky.
Personification
A special kind of writing that uses words to paint pictures in your mind and make you feel different emotions, often with rhythm and rhyme.
Poetry
True or False:
Author's purpose:
Inform, persuade, exclaim
What is a caption?
A little note or description that goes with a picture, telling you more about what's happening or what the picture is about.