IN CLASS:
Today we finished the back side of the yellow Poetry Terms You Should Know sheet. The back looked at different types of figurative language. Understanding figurative language is key to understand poetry, so we will be concentrating on simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole and irony. Students also received their first poetry writing assignment. The task is to write an original limerick, following the standard limerick rules:
Limericks usually tell of a series of events or describe something in a humorous or exaggerated way. They tend to begin with the words "There once was a..."
A limerick has a special rhyme scheme: the 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines rhyme with each other, and the 3rd and 4th lines rhymes with each other. Rhyme Scheme = A, A, B, B, A
There is also a specific rhythm patters: the 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines have three accents, and the 3rd and 4th lines have two accents.
Example:
There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in the night
With, oh, what a fright
And found it was perfectly true.
DOWNLOADS FROM TODAY:
Limerick Assignment Sheet
ASSIGNMENT:
Limerick due Wednesday, March 10th
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