Poetry Party!

with Diane Z. Shore

Alliteration•Same sequence of sounds

•Tongue Twisters

Rejection

Rejection

Rejection

April 25, 2000

Dear Writer,

Thank you for sending your work to me to consider for publication with Orchard Books.I have now given your submission careful readings and, as much as I enjoy certain elements of the writing, overall I do not feel it is strong enough to publish successfully on the Orchard list.

I’m sorry I can’t send better news. I am returning you manuscript herewith along withmy best wishes for placing it elsewhere. Thank you again for your interest in Orchard Books .

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Hyperbole• Exaggeration for effectH

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Rhythm

VIVID VERBS AND COLORFUL WORDS

• Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words

• Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words

• Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words• • Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words

• Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words

• Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words

VIVID VERBS AND COLORFUL WORDS

• He went out the door and took a drink.

• Sam bolted out the screen door chugging his Gatorade.

Onomatopoeia

Metaphors • Comparing Two Things With- out

Using the Words Like or As

The linebacker is a bulldozer on the football field.

SimilesA Comparison Using the Words Like or As

My feet are as warm as toast

• The clowns tumbled around like underwear in a dryer.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close to success they were when they gave up.

THOMAS EDISON

PersonificationGiving an inanimate objecthuman characteristics

This is the alleywhere schoolchildren meetfor a stick-and-ball gamein the cobblestone street

Couplet

It’s hard to catch a butterfly

Because he flies across the sky.

Lightening, thunder, all around!

Soon the rain falls on the ground.

Two (2) lines that rhyme

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candlestick.

CoupletsTwo lines that rhyme

School’s out! Summer’s in! Livelong days begin again.

Hiking, biking, cookouts, camps.Overnight at Gran and Gramps.

Lightening bugs and lemon squeezes.Sunburned noses, skinned-up kneeses.

Freckled cheeks and ice creamed chins.School’s out! Summer’s in!

Writing a Couplet1. Think about your topic. Think about what

you want to say about it in your poem.

2. Make a list of words that rhymes with the last word in your sentence.

3. Write your second sentence. Does it rhyme with the first line? Does it have the same (or almost the same) number of syllables?

TripletThree (3) lines, at least two that rhyme

Up, up, up in flight Sails my rainbow kite.What a pretty sight!

Triplet Triangle

QuatrainFour (4) lines with several possible rhyming patterns:

AABB – lines 1 and 2 rhyme, lines 3 and 4 rhyme

ABCB – lines 2 and 4 rhyme, lines 1 and 3 do not rhyme.

CookiesCookies are my favorite snack. AWhile I eat I smack, smack, smack. A Each flavor is so very sweet, BBut chocolate chip cannot be beat.

B Mister SunMister Sun wakes up at dawn, A Puts his golden slippers on, AClimbs the summer sky at noon, BTrading places with the moon. B

Mary had a little lamb AIts fleece was white as snow. BAnd everywhere that Mary went CThe lamb was sure to go. B

A Row, row, row your boat,B Gently down the stream,C Merrily, merrily, merrily,B Life is but a dream.

Quatrain - ABCB

LimerickAn amusing/silly verse of fine lives. There are three long lines, and two short lines that rhyme.

A There once was a girl who loved bugs. 8A She kept them in jars, cups and jugs. 8B She tickled their shins, 5 B Scratched under their chins, 5A And carefully game them all hugs. 8

There once was a poor boy named SidWho thought he knew more than he did. He thought that a shark Would turn tail if you bark.So he swam out to try it --- poor kid!

There once was a bear at the zooWho could always find something to do. When it bored him to go On a walk to and froHe reversed it and walked for and to.

Limerick

Writing a LimerickLine 1 ___________________________________ALine 2 ___________________________________A Line 3 ________________________B Line 4 ________________________BLine 5 ___________________________________A

1. Choose the name of the person, place or thing your limerick is going to be about.

2. Create your first line. (You may want to follow the pattern “There was a _______ named __________.” or “There once was a ___________from ____________.” Make a list of words that rhymes with the last word in your first line.

3. Think of a second line that rhymes with your fist line.4. Write two short lines that rhyme which tell something about your

topic.5. Now think of a final line that rhymes with your first line. (You may want

to repeat part of your first line.)

Writing a HaikuLine 1 ______________ 5 syllablesLine 2 __________________________ 7 syllables Line 3 _______________ 5 syllables

1. Decide on your topic. You may want to use a picture to get started.

2. Make a list of phrases that tells where the action is occurring. Remember to refer to nature or season.

3. Make a list of phrases that tells what is happening.4. Make a list of phrases that tells when the action is taking

place.5. Write a haiku using your favorite phrase from each list.6. Make changes until you have seventeen syllables.

Tired cat sleeps all night.He needs lots of rest for aLong day of napping.

On the moonlit beachrestless waves move endlessly Quiet summer night