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What is the format of a haiku? What are haikus generally about? Find and share an example of a haiku.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:35:54 UTC

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

''Light of the moon

Moves west, flowers' shadows

Creep eastward.''

What is the format of a cinquain? Find and Share an example of a cinquain.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:39:35 UTC

A five-line stanza.

WATERMELON

Watermelon

Juicy, sweet

Dripping, slurping, smacking

So messy to eat

Yummy

What is the format of a diamonte? Find and share an example of a diamonte.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:42:29 UTC

A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.

DAY AND NIGHT

Day
Bright, Sunny
Raining, Shining, Heating
Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Bedtime
Darkening, Cooling, Scaring
Dark, Cold
Night

What is the format of a concrete poem? Find and share an example of a concrete poem.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:45:20 UTC

What is the format of a narrative poem? Find and share an example of a narrative poem.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:47:48 UTC

Epic poems tell a long story about a hero, a character of high stature from a society who is often capable of performing superhuman feats.

What is the format of a free verse poem? Find and share an example of a free verse poem.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:53:11 UTC

Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.

Fog

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

In your own words define hyperbole. Find and share an example of a hyperbole.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:57:10 UTC

Over exaggeration of something.

"I'm holding in so much gas I'm going to blow up''

In your own words define allusion. Find and share an example of an allusion.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 15:59:22 UTC

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.

In your own words define Onomatopoeia. Give an example of an Onomatopoeia.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 16:03:21 UTC

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named .

In your own words define Alliteration. Give an example of an Alliteration.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-28 16:07:07 UTC

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

In your own words define Repetition. Give an example of Repetition.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-29 15:20:53 UTC

Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.\

THE BELLS

''How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells''

In your own words define Rhythm. Give an example of Rhythm.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-29 15:28:06 UTC

Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed beats.

In your own words define Rhyme scheme. Give an example of internal, end and near rhyme scheme.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-29 15:33:50 UTC

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

Create three of your own poems using three of the above formats.

gonzaand011 — 2015-05-29 15:37:07 UTC

Cinquain

Snow

Lovely, white

Falling, dancing, drifting

Covering everything it touches

Blanket

Free verse

Winter Poem

once a snowflake fell

on my brow and i loved

it so much and i kissed

it and it was happy and called its cousins

and brothers and a web

of snow engulfed me then

i reached to love them all

and i squeezed them and they became

a spring rain and i stood perfectly

still and was a flower

Alliteration

''Ralph’s reindeer rose rapidly and ran round the room''