Poetry Wonders Unit 4 Week 5

A free verse poem

• features imaginary creatures.

• may or may not rhyme.

• always tells a funny story.

• uses a set meter and verse.

Read the following lines from "The Winningest Woman of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race".

The weather? Forty-two below

Could freeze the whiskers in a beard!

The huskies up front disappeared

And though it sounds a little weird-

What element of poetry does the poet use in these lines?

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• repetition

• personification

Which word means the OPPOSITE of weird?

• tiny

• new

• strange

• usual

The KEY element of a narrative poem is that it

• tells a story.

• uses alliteration.

• features characters.

• rhymes.

Extremely means

• less

• half

• very

• once

What does the word adventurous mean?

• willing to do something scary

• unable to find

• having no information

• wanting to move ahead

Which word means almost the SAME as couragous?

• smart

• able

• brave

• tense

What type of poem is "The Brave Ones?"

• free verse

• quatrain

• haiku

• rhyming

Which of the following sentences below uses repetition?

• Less likely than letters are numbers on a language test.

• We walked and walked and walked all the way home.

• She moved like the wind.

• He was as clumsy as an ox.

How are the two poems ALIKE?

• The both compare people to animals.

• The both describe brave people.

• They both describe brave animals.

• The both describe animals.