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Ms. Luchik
Ms. Casiano
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Line 1: Tell what color the abstraction is
Line 2: Tell what the abstraction sounds like
Line 3: Tell what the abstraction tastes like
Line 4: Tell what the abstraction smells like
Line 5: Tell what the abstraction looks like
Line 6: Tell what the abstraction makes you feel
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Problems are black.
They sound like children crying.
They taste of castor oil.
And smell like spinach.
They look like monsters.
They make you feel unwanted.
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Line 1: one word, subject of poem
Line 2: two words, adjectives describing subject
Line 3: three words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 4: four words related to subject
(ior lines 5-7, describe opposite/antonym of subject)
Line 5: three words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 6: two words, adjectives describing opposite of subject
Line 7: one word, opposite/antonym of subject in Line 1
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Love
Happy, secure
Dreaming, talking, loving
Husband, wife, children, home
Quarreling, loathing, degrading
Angry, mad
Hate
 

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Line 1: one word, subject of poem

Line 2: two words, description of subject (adjectives)
Line 3: three words, participles (-ing verbs), actions
Line 4: four words, simile describing feelings about subject
Line 5: one word, synonym for subject
 

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ieather
Purple, unpredictable
Wiggling, wobbling, plummeting
Wild as an angry bumblebee
Plume
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Color (title)

Color is describe looks, describe looks,

and feels like describe feel.
Color is the taste of describe taste.
Describe smell and describe smell smell color.
Describe how color makes you feel makes me feel color.
Color is the sound of describe sound and describe sound.
Color is place that reminds you of color, place that reminds you of color,
and place that reminds you of color.
¢ perience that makes you feel this color is color.
¢ perience that makes you feel this color is also color.
Color is anything you want for this line.
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Turquoise
Turquoise is magic, manatees, and silly putty.
Turquoise is the taste of sherbert.
Juicy pears and the desert smell turquoise.
A cleared mind makes me feel turquoise.
Turquoise sounds of splashing paint and tubas.
Turquoise is Yashiro, a calm pool of water, and a coral reef.
Painting is turquoise.
Making new friends is turquoise.
Turquoise is having siblings.
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iormula: ¢ach line of an anagram begins with a letter
of the subject and should describe the subject.
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Apple picking
Umbrella bent by the wind
Toasting marshmallows over an open fire
Unequaled beauty
Many colored leaves
North winds chill me to the bone
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Line 1: one word, topic

Line 2: two words, colors
Line 3: three words, adjectives
Line 4: four words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 5: five words, a sentence about your feelings
or e periences
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iall
yellow, orange
shiny, wet, windy
raining, changing, playing, falling
The days grow too short.
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iormula:
A haiku has three lines. Typically, the
topic is nature. Line 1 should have five
syllables, line 2 should have seven syllables,
and line 3 should have seven syllables. (5-7-
5)
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Most cannot see it.

It¶s intertwined and comple .
A beauty in dew.
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Line 1________________________
Line 2________________________
Line 3________________________
Line 4________________________
Line 5________________________
Line 6________________________
Line 7________________________
Line 8________________________

Lines 2 & 4 should have end rhyme.

Lines 6 & 8 should have end rhyme.
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Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein

Birds are flyin¶ south for winter.

Here¶s the wierd-Bird headin¶ north.
Wings a-flappin¶, beak a-chatterin¶,
Cold head bobbin¶ back µn¶ forth.
He says, ³It¶s not that I like ice
Or freezin¶ winds and snowy ground.
It¶s just sometimes it¶s kind of nice
To be the only bird in town.
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iormula:

A limerick is a 5-line poem meant to be

humorous. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a
with lines 1, 2, and 5 containing 3 beats and
rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats
and rhyming.
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A flea and a fly in a flue

Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, ³Let us flee.´
³Let us fly,´ said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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Quick Practice:

There once was a pauper named Meg

Who accidentally broke her______.
She slipped on the _____.
Not once, but thrice
Take no pity on her, I _______.

(Can you guess which words go in the blanks?)

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Painted writing is a way of placing words
on paper to give a visual effect to match the
feeling of the writing. The shape e presses
what the writing is about. Use strong, colorful
language to describe the topic of the poem.
Remember to think about your five senses.
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