Alliteration

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8th Grade Poetry Project By Megan Marcinkowska
Limerick
Cinquain
Rhyme
Concrete
Haiku
Alliteration
Assonance
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Onomatpoeia
Personification
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Alliteration

• Definition The repetition of consonant sounds
  at the beginnings of words.
• Example Summer sea

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• Gulls and Buoys
• By Anne LeMieux
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• Gulls swoop, gulls soar,
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• Flocking, flying, gulls galore.
• Gulls wheel, gulls wing,
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• Clamorous chorus, gulls sing.
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• Gulls squawk, gulls screech
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• By the buoys, on the beach.
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• Gulls gather, gulls together,
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• Raucous caucus, birds of a feather.
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Anthem for Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen What
passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only
the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the
stuttering rifles rapid rattle Can patter out
their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them
no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning
save the choirs, ? The shrill, demented choirs of
wailing shells And bugles calling for them from
sad shires. What candles may be held to speed
them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their
eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of
good-byes. The pallor of girls brows shall be
their pall Their flowers the tenderness of
patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down
of blinds.  
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Assonance

• Definition The repetition of a vowel sounds in
  stressed syllables that end with different
  consonant sounds.
• Example snow and road snow and road

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Snow Country
By Dave Etter  only a
little yellow  school bus creeping along a
thin  ribbon of snow road splashed
color  on the white winter
canvas that was  Wyoming from
the train yesterday
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Swift Things are Beautiful By Elizabeth
Coatsworth   Slow things are beautiful The
closing of the day, The pause of the wave That
curves downward to spray.
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Rhyme

• Definition The repetition of sounds at the ends
  of words.
• Example fight and light
• space and place

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Is Your Head on Nice and Tight? By Kalli Dakos
Is your head on nice and tight, Do your kneecaps
fit just right, Did you shine up all your
skin, And bring your belly button in? Have you
lost a toe or two And could your brain be
overdue? Please look in the Lost and Found, If
your ears are not around.
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Hiding in the Bathroom By Kalli Dakos
Im hiding in the bathroom, Theres no one here
to see, Im tired of my classroom, And I wish
theyd set me free. Free of all those noisy
kids Rattling round the room, And calling me
such awful names Ill never last till June!
Free of that darn substitute Who
screeches and who yells The bathroom is the
nicest place To sit and wait for bells
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Simile

• Definition Uses like or as to compare two
  unlike things.
• Example I breathe fire as hot as the sun.

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A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns
O My Luve's like a red, red rose,That's newly
sprung in JuneO My Luve's like the
melodieThat's sweetly playd in tune.
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Flint By Christina Rossetti
  An emerald is as green as grass,A ruby red as
bloodA sapphire shines as blue as heavenA
flint lies in the mud.
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Metaphor

• Definition Describes one thing as if it were
  something else.
• Example My brother is a killer whale.

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The Wave Of Love By Gavin T. Hewitson We are
all one, we are all unique and beautifulEach
one of us a star, shining beauty brightLove is
inside our hearts and our hearts are fullOnce
you open your heart love shines it's light
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Onomatopoeia

• Definition The use of words that imitate
  sounds.
• Example boom, crunch, bang

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Slurp! By Melissa Kerk
Oh no! I hear something Crash ahhhhhh
Somethings near I have a lot of fear
Clink, clink, clink Its here, its here
Its black in the room Its on my bed!
SLURP! Oh its just my cat! MEOW!
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Rattle Snake By Kenny Mack
Rattle, rattle a snake goes through the
desert Hiss, hiss, rattle, rattle Hes sees an
egg, snatch, crunch, crunch, gulp. Then he
slithers down the hill of the desert Slither,
slither.
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Personification

• Definition Gives human qualities to something
  nonhuman.
• Example The clarinet sang.

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The Cat and the Fiddle By Mother Goose 
Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon The little dog
laughed To see such a sport, And the dish
ran away with the spoon.
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Hyperbole

• Definition A figure of speech in which
  deliberate exaggeration is used to
  create emphasis.
• Example I had so much homework, I needed a
  pickup truck to carry all my books home!

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Longmobile By Shel Silverstein Its the worlds
longest car, I swear, It reaches from Beale
Street to Washington Square. And once you get in
it To go where youre going, You simply get out,
cause youre there.
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Concrete Poem

• Definition Poetry that takes the shape of the
  subject it describes.
• Example

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Star Light Star bright, Star shining In the dark
of night, over a cavern deep and dark, Inside the
cave a babys born, who shall die on the cross,
But Do not mourn, for he is the one to save our
race, for we have fallen from grace, Three
kings and three shepherds have Come by your
light, through this cold, dark,
and Winter y
nig h
t. By Stephen Neville
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Poe's                  raven
told         him nothing nevermore              
    and Vincent's circling                   
crows were a threat to destroy                   
   sunlight. Now I saw a bird, black with a
yellow                        beak, orange
rubber legs                           pecking to
kill the                             lawn, storm
bird                              hates with
claw,                                  evil
beak,                                       
s                                       
u                                       
n                                    and eye
By Don Carlson
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Limerick

• Definition Humorous five-line poems with a
  specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
• Example There once was a fellow named Tim
• whose dad never taught him to swim.
• He fell off a dock
• and sunk like a rock.
• and that was the end of him.

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Title unknown By Edward Lear There was a
young lady whose bonnet, Came untied when the
birds sat upon it But she said I dont
care! All the birds in the air Are welcome to
sit on my bonnet!
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Title unknown By Edward Lear There was an Old
Man of Kilkenny, Who never had more than a
penny He spent all that money, In onions and
honey, That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny.
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Haiku

• Definition Three-line Japanese verse form.
• First third lines each have five syllables
  the second line has seven.
• Example Birds fly overhead
• I see shadows on the ground
• Flying south to warmth

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Flowers By Kay Pravda Stately skyscrapers Above
ant roads through the dirt Shade busy workers
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Cinquain

• Definition Typically unrhymed poem.
• Twenty-two syllables distributed in 2, 4, 6, 8,
  2 in five lines.
• Example Line 1 Noun Megan
• Line 2 Description of Noun dirty
  blonde hair
• Line 3 Action basketball,
  volleyball
• Line 4 Feeling or Effect helpful,
  caring, outgoing, fun
• Line 5 Synonym of the
  initial noun Marie

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Shade Tree By Jeanne Cassler The oak (2) in my
backyard (4) holds twisted rope and wood
(6)knows the name of every child (8) that
swings. (2)
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First Visit to the Ocean By Jeanne Cassler
She's lost (2) inside her laugh (4) before the
rising tide (6) that reaches out to tickle her
(8) bare toes. (2)
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MY POETRY
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Warning Rewritten By Megan Marcinkowska When I
am an old woman. With a cane which doesnt go,
and doesnt suit me. And I shall spend my pension
on a Ferrari and spinners And a GPS system, and
say weve no money for bills. I shall sit down
on the hammock when Im tired And gobble up
samples of fudge and press alarm bells And run my
stick along the sidewalk And make up for the
sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my
swimming suit in the rain And pick tulips in
other peoples gardens And learn to do the
splits. You can wear outdated shirts shirts and
grow gray hair And eat three pounds of candy at a
go Or only peanut butter and jelly for a week And
hoard scrapbooks and pictures and newspapers and
things in boxes. (continued on next page)
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But now we must have clothes that keep us
warm And pay our rent and not dance in the
street And set a good example for the
children. We must have the grand children to
dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to
practice a little now? So people who know me are
not too shocked and grossed out When suddenly I
am old, and grumpy.
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Turkeys By Megan Marcinkowska Turkeys (2) Red,
blue, and brown (4) Move through the wilderness
(6) Gracefully, silently, timid (8) A jake (2)
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Spring Time By Megan Marcinkowska Roses are
red rubys are blue apples from Freds are juicy
and taste good too. Easter lilies will come up
soon, while the lemon trees are in full
bloom. The blue jay makes his long trip
North, while Iris and blue berries sprout
forth. This is a very good sign that spring has
arrived.
3 stanza poem
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My poem of choice
Clowns By Megan Marcinkowska The clown
(2) Crazy red hair (4) Graceful in his
outfit(6) Makes kids excited and happy (8) Bozo
(2)
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THE END
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