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1) Diamante:

Fire

powerful, strong

burning, bright, hot

embers glow, icy, shiny

cold, clear, mirror, hail

reflective, misty,

Ice

2) Cinquain:

Tigger

a happy tiger

orange, bouncing, cuddly

loves to be goofy

awesome

3) Haiku:

Flowers

bright and beautiful

blooming in the sun today

colors are vibrant

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Hyperbole:  im 20 feet tall this month

Allusion:

Onomatopoeia: boom,pop, pow,booooommm

Alliteration: Dan’s dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove

Repetition:

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there’s a pair of us-don’t tell!
They’d banish us you know.

Rhythm: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Internal: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

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What
is the format of a haiku? What are haikus generally about?

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A haiku poem has three lines, where the first and last lines have five moras, while the middle line has seven.

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You work from the first subject  paced at the top of the poem to the second subject placed at the  bottom of the poem.

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Kidsnetsoft: 21st Century Learning

"Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event." ~Heidi-Hayes Jacobs

Welcome to Kidsnetsoft by Chris Clementi, a Computer Design teacher. The original site was established in 2001. This site was transferred over to Google Sites for convenience. It has evolved throughout the years to help educators, students and parents. It is primarily used to provide resources for students and teachers so they can learn about the use of technology in education. You can access lesson plans, videos, copyright friendly material and so much more by exploring this site. Kidsnetsoft is designed to keep kids safe while they learn how to be critical thinkers. They will not only learn various applications, but they will learn how to create aesthetically pleasing products. This site will continue to populate with resources that can benefit students, computer and academic teachers alike. It should also be a great resource for students that are home schooled and parents. * Report inappropriate content if the settings are supposed to be safe.

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Kidsnetsoft: 21st Century Learning "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event." ~Heidi-Hayes Jacobs Welcome to Kidsnetsoft by Chris Clementi, a Computer Design teacher. The original site was established in 2001. This site was transferred over to Google Sites for convenience.

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A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey

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A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. She was an American poet who took her inspiration from Japanese haiku and tanka. A collection of poems, titled Verse, was published in 1915 and included 28 cinquains. Cinquains are particularly vivid in their imagery and are meant to convey a certain mood or emotion. Explore several examples of cinquain poems and their format.

cinquain poem in book

American Cinquain Poem Form and Structure

Originally, Adelaide Crapsey created the form for the American cinquain with five lines. Each line is stressed in a specific way. Additionally, as the form progressed, a syllable structure was added.

Stresses Per Line

Explore the composition of each line by looking at the specific stressed and unstressed syllables.

The first line has one stress, which was usually an iambic meter with the first syllable unstressed and the second stressed.

Line two has two stresses.

Line three has three stresses.

Line four has four stresses.

Line five has one stress.

Syllables Per Line

Following the invention of this form, writers made changes to the form and included a certain number of syllables per line.

Line one has two syllables.

Line two has four syllables.

Line three has six syllables.

Line four has eight syllables.

Line five has two syllables.

Even though iambic feet were typically used in these cinquains, it was not a requirement of the structure. See how this cinquain poem form worked through a classic Crapsey example.

Popular Cinquain Poem Forms

Since its invention, there have been many variations of the cinquain. Explore a few different types of cinquain poem examples. Certain types of cinquains are also called quintains or quintets because they have five lines.

reverse cinquain - an American cinquain followed by a reverse American cinquain

butterfly cinquain - a nine-line poem with a specific syllable pattern

crown cinquain - puts five cinquains together to create a 25-line, five-stanza poem

Didactic Cinquain Poem Form 1

This is a very popular form of cinquain because of its simplicity. Instead of incorporating stress and syllables, it uses word counts.

The first line is one word which is the title of the poem.

The second line contains two words which are adjectives that describe the title.

The third line has three words that tell the reader more about the subject of the poem or show action. Many times these words are gerunds that end with -ing.

The fourth line has four words that show emotions about the subject of the poem and may be individual words or a phrase.

The fifth line is one word that is a synonym of the title or is very similar to it.

Explore a few examples of didactic cinquain form.

Watermelon by Anonymous

Watermelon never felt more delicious than in this unique poem.

Snow by Anonymous

A fun wintry example of the cinquain form.

Didactic Cinquain Form 2

This didactic form is just slightly different from the first form in that the fourth line is a complete sentence and may have more than four words.

The first line is one word.

The second line contains two adjectives.

The third line has three words ending in -ing.

The fourth line has four or more words that make a complete sentence.

The fifth line is one word.

See this cinquain form in action through these examples.

Other Cinquain Examples

While didactic cinquains are one of the most popular among students, it can be good to see a few longer cinquain poems in action.

My Love by Abigail Gronway

Explore a garland cinquain in action by looking at this poem by Abigail Gronway.

"my love
to you I give,
nor could I less bestow
than that which you have given me,
dear heart

dear heart,
you are my life,
my voice, the air I breathe,
the center of my universe,
my sun

my sun,
fill me with light,
and all my life I'll give -
to orbit 'round you will be my
delight

delight
my soul with praise -
your praises I will sing
as if it were enough to show
I care

I care,
and so I'll go,
to leave you for a day,
until the day when I can show
my love

my love,
you are my life,
and all my life I'll give,
as if it were enough to show
my love"

Soulful Husbandry by Lancealot

See an example of a reverse cinquain by looking at this unique cinquain poem.

"Two wolves
lives in each of
us to make us what we
are, though we train them how to serve
our goals.

They both
compete to make us what we are.
So train them well and choose
the wolf that you
will feed."

Write Your Own Cinquain

Now that you have read some examples of cinquain, you see how easy it is to write your own. Keep your love of poetry going strong by checking out haiku poem examples.

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A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. She was an American poet who took her inspiration from Japanese haiku and tanka. A collection of poems, titled Verse, was published in 1915 and included 28 cinquains. Cinquains are particularly vivid in their imagery and are meant to convey a certain mood or emotion.

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In a Pattern or Shape Poem, the shape of the poem on the page symbolizes the content of the poem.

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The Concrete Poem Form
by Ariadne Unst

History. Form. Your Composition. Example. References.

History.

Introduced in the 1950's, the term "Concrete Poem" now often includes what was historically called the "Pattern Poem" or (in the terminology of Kenneth Koch) a "Shape Poem."

In a Pattern or Shape Poem, the shape of the poem on the page symbolizes the content of the poem.

In the 1950's poets in Switzerland and Sweden and Brazil started, independently, to develop "Concrete Poetry" (partly as an adaptation of "concrete painting", a minor European school of the 1940's). In such poems, the arrangement of words and phrases on the page indicated the poem's meaning.

Poets who have made such mergers of appearance and content include George Herbert, Lewis Carrol (pen name of Charles L. Dodgson), Ezra Pound, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Stephane Mallarmé.

Form.

In a Concrete Poem, form follows function. The poem's visual form reveals its content and is integral to it.
These are the features of such a poem:

If you remove the form of the poem, you weaken the poem.

In some (though not all) Concrete Poems, the form contains so much significant meaning of the poem that, if you remove the form of the poem, you destroy the poem.

The arrangement of letters and words creates an image that offers the meaning visually.

The white space of the page can be a significant part of the poem.

Such poems can include a combination of lexical and pictorial elements.

The physical arrangement in a Concrete Poem can provide a cohesion that the actual words lack. This allows a poem to ignore standard syntax, and logical sequencing.

While such poetry is predominantly experienced as visual poetry, some concrete poetry is sound poetry. In general, concrete poetry attempts to give its audience the more immediate experience of art that is achieved by viewers of art or hearers of music.

The attractiveness and robustness of the term "Concrete" means that modern poems that would previously have been called "Pattern Poems" are now called "Concrete Poems."

Your Composition.

His suggestions include:

Think of some feeling (glad, sad, or mad is a good start), and begin to think of writing a poem about it.

But imagine that your poem is to be printed as a picture and that you can decide on the ideal shape for the poem.

The shape can be anything you want, as long as it has something to do with what your poem is about.

It might be easiest to outline the shape first, and then erase it, leaving a faint hint of the shape to guide you.

Popular examples are hearts and crosses and angel wings. Koch shows examples (by his students) of a cloud, waves, and the shape of the number 7.

Example of a Concrete (or Pattern) Poem.

The following Concrete (or Pattern) Poem was first published in 2002 in Runes Review of Poetry: Mystery, Editors CB Follett and Susan Terris.
The indentation reflects the steep, long flight of steps referenced in the poem.

The meaning of the poem would remain if the increasing indentation of successive lines were removed. But, by mirroring the content, the unusual layout reinforces the content of the poem.

 THE LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT OF DREAMS: BRUSSELS  J. ZimmermanFor David. "we've been around, we fall, we fly we mostly fall" Song of Bernadette, Leonard Cohen I strode off the high cathedral top-most step like a miracle worker, or a Blessed passing the final exam for Saint. The city expanded at my feet. For one pico-second, I flew. I fell. I can't remember how (bruised but unbroken) I ended, though I remember the long fall, and (this was the first time you saved me) your cat-like twist as you threw yourself faster than the grab of gravity below me, so your chest protected my face, your arms wrapped around me, your body grated for mine against granite, while we tumbled like cast-out angels.

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Older narrative poems have a set rhythm and rhyme structure

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The narrative poem, one of the oldest poetic forms in the world, could be the perfect way to tell a very modern story - yours.

Narrative poems - which simply mean "story poems" - are among the oldest forms of literature. Before there were printed books, people would tell stories through narrative poems, using rhythm, rhyme, repetition and vivid language to make their tales easy to remember and share. Many narrative poems are long, especially older ones like The Iliad and The Odyssey by the famous Greek poet Homer. But a narrative poem can also be short, capturing a brief but emotionally intense or darkly mysterious event in just a few lines.

Many older narrative poems have a set rhythm and rhyme structure, but modern narrative poems often have very free rhythms and no rhyme at all, so there is some room for creativity! However, almost all narrative poems contain at least one main character and tell a story that has a beginning, middle, and end. The stories that narrative poems tell are often dramatic and compelling, detailing events such as rocky romances, epic battles, or quests to find treasure. Once you're ready to put together your own narrative poem, keep these guidelines in mind:

5 Tips for Writing a Narrative Poem

1. Choose a topic. Pick a story that you really want to tell, even if you can't explain why. It could be something that happened to you (or a friend or loved one) or it could be something that's completely fictional. Maybe it's a memory that haunts you, a family legend, a startling dream, or a fantasy that you'd give anything to fulfill. Remember, the narrator of the poem doesn't have to be you; the narrator can be a character of your choice.

2. Make your voice heard. If the narrator in your poem is experiencing a particular emotion, make sure that this feeling comes through in the words and the tone that you choose. A poem can be a snarl, a shout, a whisper or a cry, so pack it with feeling.

3. Skip the build-up. Narrative poems don't waste words introducing characters or explaining the scene - most dive right in. Try starting your narrative poem in the middle of the action scene to bring readers immediately into the heart of your story.

4. Sweat the small stuff. The best narrative poems use precise imagery and descriptive words that bring out a story's details and paint a rich picture. Think of the five senses and use adjectives that help describe what the world looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels like as the story unfolds so readers will experience it just like you do. For instance, reading about "breakfast" or "a fall day" doesn't light the imagination, but reading about "soggy cornflakes and last night's cold coffee" or "dead leaves that crunch underfoot" does. Explore our tips on writing with simile for more advice and examples.

5. Repeat yourself. Repetition is an especially effective and powerful strategy if your narrative poem is long. Try repeating key words or phrases that are emotional or musical a few times throughout the poem. (Remember Martin Luther King's famous speech? He says "I have a dream" eight times during that speech, which is part of what makes it so powerful.)

Once you've written your narrative poem and told the story you want to tell, share it with the world! Post your poem on Power Poetry to connect with a creative community of supportive peers and writers like yourself.

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Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech

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Definition of Allusion

An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar. As a literary device, allusion allows a writer to compress a great deal of meaning and significance into a word or phrase. However, allusions are only effective to the extent that they are recognized and understood by the reader, and that they are properly inferred and interpreted by the reader. If an allusion is obscure or misunderstood, it can lose effectiveness by confusing the reader.

For example, in his novel Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow's character "Little Boy" tells another character who is going to Europe to "warn the Duke." This is an allusion to Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria whose assassination initiated the chain of events leading to World War I. Doctorow's allusion is effective for readers that recognize and understand the reference, and it underscores the significance for readers of how one action in history can lead to long-term global consequences.

Common Examples of Allusion in Everyday Speech

People often make allusions in everyday conversation, sometimes without the realization that they are doing so and sometimes without knowing the material to which they are alluding. Typically, these allusions are in reference to popular culture, including movies, books, music, public figures, and so on.

Here are some common examples of allusion in everyday speech, along with the source material to which they reference:

His smile is like kryptonite to me. (Superman's weakness)

She felt like she had a golden ticket. (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

That guy is young, scrappy, and hungry. (Hamilton)

I wish I could just click my heels. (The Wizard of Oz)

If I'm not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin. (Cinderella)

She smiles like a Cheshire cat. (Alice in Wonderland)

His job is like pulling a sword out of a stone. (King Arthur Legend)

Is there an Einstein in your physics class? (Albert Einstein)

My math teacher is he who must not be named. (Voldemort from the Harry Potter series)

I want to sound like Queen B. (Beyoncé)

Today might be the Ides of March. (Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)

Now might be a good time to sit in my thinking chair. (Blue's Clues)

I have a caped crusader costume. (Batman)

Does it count if we were on a break? (Friends)

I'm listening to the king. (Elvis Presley)

Examples of Allusion to Classical Mythology

Writers often utilize allusion as a literary device for an incidental mention of something or a passing reference to create context. Greek and/or Roman mythology are commonly used as sources for allusions in literature, directly or by implication, due to the familiarity most readers have with classical myths, their stories, and characters.

Here are some examples of allusion to classical mythology:

Achilles' heel (alluding to the one weakness of Achilles)

arrow of love (allusion to Cupid)

carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders (allusion to Atlas)

pushing a boulder uphill every day (allusion to Sisyphus)

hot as Hades (alluding to the god of death / king of the underworld)

looking like Venus (alluding to the goddess of beauty)

Herculean effort (alluding to the strength of Hercules)

opening Pandora's box (alluding to Pandora's myth of letting trouble into the world)

protean form of management (alluding to Proteus who could change his shape)

can't stop staring at himself (allusion to Narcissus)

Famous Examples of Biblical Allusion

The Bible is another frequently referenced source for writers utilizing allusion as a literary device. Here are some famous examples of Biblical allusion:

garden (Eden, creation)

snake (serpent, Satan)

flood (Noah's Ark)

apple/fruit (tree of knowledge, temptation)

cross (Christ, crucifixion)

great patience (Job)

fraternal competition (Cain and Abel)

betrayal (Judas)

generosity/philanthropy (Good Samaritan)

slingshot/stone (David and Goliath)

Writing Allusion

Allusion is a very effective literary device in all forms of literature. Writers can use allusions for character development by associating them with other well-known and familiar characters or archetypes. Literary allusions can also provide context for the reader through comparison or contrast to another literary work. In addition, allusion can provide exposition for a story by referring to the plot and/or character of another work that helps the reader understand more about the story's events or character motivations.

When creating allusions in a literary work, writers must balance what they choose to reference and how to incorporate it into their work so it is understandable and meaningful for the reader. Here are some common types of allusion for a writer to consider when using this literary device:

self reference-when a writer references another work of their own

single reference-when a writer connects their work to another through allusion

causal reference-when an allusion is made but it is not essential to the story

corrective reference-when a writer references another work that is in opposition by comparison

apparent reference-when a writer alludes to a specific source but in a challenging way

multiple references-when a writer uses a variety of allusions

Examples of Allusion in Literature

As a literary device, allusion is used for context in a literary work through reference to a well-known or familiar person, place, event, or other work of literature. In this way, allusions help develop a relationship between a writer's creation and its association with something else that the reader would recognize. This is effective in developing characters. creating settings, and contextualizing a story. Most literary allusions are not directly explained to the reader, but instead rely on the reader's inferential ability.

Here are some examples of allusion in well-known literary works:

Example 1: The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)

Here is the house it is green and white it has a red door it
is very pretty here is the family mother father dick and
jane live in the green-and-white house they are very happy
see jane she has a red dress she wants to play who will play
with jane see the cat it goes meow-meow come and play
come play with jane the kitten will not play see mother
mother is very nice mother will you play with jane mother
laughs laugh mother laugh see father he is big and strong
father will you play with jane father is smiling smile father
smile see the dog bowwow goes the dog do you want to
play do you want to play with jane see the dog run run
dog run look look here comes a friend the friend will play
with jane they will play a good game play jane play

In her novel, Morrison alludes to the familiar wording of the reading primer series Dick and Jane, used as part of educational curricula from the 1930s to the 1970s. The series featured simple, repetitive wording and pictured a white, middle class family made up of a boy, girl, mother, father, dog, and cat living in an idyllic American neighborhood. In this passage, Pecola's character challenges the language, intention, and aesthetic of the Dick and Jane series by running the words together and making them difficult to understand for the novel's reader.

This reflects the breakdown and disparity of images in Pecola's mind between her environment and experience as an African American girl in 1940 Ohio, and the white children in the world of Dick and Jane. Morrison's use of allusion to Dick and Jane as a literary device is effective in that it is widely recognized and understood by readers, and gives meaning to the meaninglessness Pecola finds in the primer's words.

Example 2: Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost)

In his poem, Frost makes an allusion to the "fall of man" and exile from Paradise by referring to Eden and how it "sank to grief." This allusion helps to connect the human experience to the poet's lament about the cycle of life and death, beginning and ending, in nature. The allusion to Eden also provides an interesting context to the poem, in that the reader can infer that the fall of man was a natural and possibly inevitable occurrence, adding to the appreciation of life in its temporary existence.

Example 3: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

While I waited for him in the woods, waiting for him before he saw me, I would think of him as dressed in sin. I would think of him as thinking of me as dressed also in sin, he the more beautiful since the garment which he had exchanged for sin was sanctified. I would think of the sin as garments which we would remove in order to shape and coerce the terrible blood to the forlorn echo of the dead word high in the air.

Faulkner's novel relies heavily on the reader's ability to deduce and infer plot elements and character motivations. This is particularly true with Addie Bundren's character, as she is limited to narrating one chapter through death. In this passage, Addie remembers her adulterous affair with Reverent Whitfield that produced her son Jewel. This passage is an allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary work The Scarlet Letter in which Hester Prynne conceived a child through her affair with Reverend Dimmesdale.

Faulkner's use of this allusion helps contextualize Addie's character, her relationship with Jewel, and the fractured structure of her family. However, Faulkner is relying on the reader to catch this brief allusion to Hawthorne's work, infer its significance and meaning, and apply that to his own novel. If the reader misses or misinterprets Faulkner's subtle allusion, then it is ineffective and without meaning.

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1. An example of a Haiku:

Butterflies are cool

in the big, huge, green forest

They fly up so high!

2.  An example of a Cinquain:

Snow

drifting,settiling,covering

glistening,melting,layering,burying

Snow

3. An example of a Diamante:

Flames

powerful shiny

burning swooshing killing

fire embers snow hail

freezing crackiling slipping

clear reflective

ice

5. An example of  narrative poem

I cant travel

away from you

rolling in pine cone

each time i go to leave

my shoes hide

in your dreams

6. An example of a free verse poem

spring is the

time

when flowers

bloom.

when the busy

bees

buzz

4. An example of Concrete poem: