Child lit. Ch.6 Flashcards
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Types of poems child’s like / understand
Mother goose rhymes and other rhymes of nursery (nursery rhymes)
Jump-rope and counting-out rhymes
(Jump-rope rhymes)
Folk songs/poems
Lyric or expressive Poems
Narrative poems
Nonsense verse
Poetry
Is a precise form of language, with intense feeling, imagery, and qualities of sound.
Nursery rhymes
Verses by anonymous poets that are highly rhythmic, tightly rhymed, and popular with small children.
Jump-rope rhymes
Are anonymous verses passed on from child to child.
Folk poems
Are poems that deal with the folklore of The land. Very popular among children.
Lyric/expressive poems
Where original lyrics for Greek poems that offered insight, and emotion.)
Narrative poems
Poems that tell stories that are among the oldest of all poems.
Nonsense verse
It’s humorous poetry
Form Poems: Limmericks
Is a poem that is 5 lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba.
Form poems: haiku
A three-line non-rhyming poem developed in japan that traditionally contains 17 syllables, 5 on line one, 7 on line 2, and 5 on the last one.
Dialogue Poems
A poem that uses two or more voices
Novels in verse
Stories that are told in verse
Free verse
Poetry that does not need to have form or rhyme or rhythm, but it’s impression with an intensity of insight or feeling.
Poetry collections
Is an anthology of verses. That can have a wide range of topics.
How was early children’s poetry?
It was often cheerless, moralistic, didactic and mean-spirited.
How is Contemporary poetry?
Non-rhyming, more folksy, more honest and confiding.
Poets
Might need to add poets specifically pages 184 look for the rest
Elements of poetry
Sounds; rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia
Images
Comparisons
Forms
Insight
Sounds
Are the musical aspects of poetry
Rhythm
Is the beat of a poem
Rhyme
Lends a musical quality by building patterns if repetition
Alliteration
Composed of two forms consonance (string together constant sounds)and assonance (string together vowel sounds)
They are the more subtle way of rhyming.
Onomatopoeia
When words in a poem imitate actual sounds of things
Images
Using details that enables us to picture how things look, sound, feel, smell, or taste