Poetry Format
Begin with title.
Each line begins with capital.
Each stanza ends with a period.
Most couplets (rhymes) end with a period.
Most lines need an end mark.
Author's name at the end of the poem.
Good spelling and grammar.
Make sure you use the whole page, but try not keep rhymes on one line.
Do not center poem with title
Personification – Gives human characteristics to inanimate (nonhuman) objects. (The old truck coughed.)
Simile – Compares 2 things using like or as (She is like a bear in winter.)
Metaphor- Compares 2 things w/o using like or as. (The lunchroom was a zoo.)
Hyperbole – the use of exaggeration to make a point or to be funny. (He has a brain the size of a pea.)
– a common saying that doesn’t mean exactly what it says (She is in hot water.)
Symbolism – the use of one thing to stand for another. (Red sun stands for blood or death.)
Alliteration – The repetition of beginning sounds (Several silly serpents)
Imagery – When an author uses words or phrases that paint a picture in the reader’s head and uses the five senses. (Day after day the sky was gray as rain spattered against the windows. Rain dripped steadily from the leaves of the maple tree. Soon everything in the room smelled musty. Even the sheets felt clammy. p. 48 Sadako by Coerr)
http://www.manythings.org/proverbs/
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
Benjamin Franklin 1732