Poetry is
word play!
Poetry is playing with palabras
thoughts feelings hopes
in ways that stories cannot
Poems look different,
differently,
may confuse or entertain or make you say,
“Hmmmmm?!”
They reveal.
| Mentor Texts | Lessons | Rubric/ Checklist |
Examples |
| Type of Poetry | Poetry Techniques |
| Acrostic | Alliteration |
| Diamante | Assonance |
| Free Verse | Consonance |
| Haiku | Couplet |
| Limerick | Metaphor |
| List | Meter/ Iambic Pentameter |
| Rhyming | Onomatopoeia |
| Shape/ Concrete | Personification |
| Sonnet | Repetition |
| Story | Rhyme |
| Rhythm | |
| Simile |
