Classification of Children's Poetry ELTETOK

This type of poetry contains a rhyme scheme of a a b b a for a total of five lines.

• limerick

• haiku

• nursery rhyme

• acrostic poem

This poem is called a...

• acrostic poem

• concrete poem

• haiku

• limerick

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" are what types of poems?

(a)  

What type of poem is this?

(a)  

Match the following

• limerick

• 
• acrostic poem

• 575

• nursery rhyme

• 
• haiku

• 
• concrete poem

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Children's poetry is a relatively old phenomenon.

• true

• false

Match the following

• cultural signifiers and language

• 15th century

• nonsense verse and "Golden Age"

• 1970s

• free-verse and realism

• Victorian Era

• religious and moral instruction

• modern poetry

• surreal and absurd

• 1960s

Examples of children’s poetry from the 1960s are:

• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seus

• The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

• Under the Window by Kate Greenway

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak