Name __________________________________ Date



Name __________________________________ Date ____________________

Elements of Poetry Scavenger Hunt

Circulate and read other students’ songs. As you find examples record them below.

|Alliteration: when two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Idiom: a group of words that have a meaning that cannot be inferred from the individual words (e.g., raining cats and dogs) |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Metaphor: when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Mood: the feeling of a piece of writing |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| | |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Onomatopoeia: words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Personification: when you make a thing or idea do something only humans can do |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

| | |

|Repetition: when you have a word and use it more than once |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Simile: when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as" |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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|Allusion: reference to something else (historical, literary, etc) |

|Lines from the poem |Resource |

| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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| |Name of Song: __________________________ |

| |Name of Singer / Writer: _________________ |

| |Line number / Stanza:____________________ |

| |Student: ______________________________ |

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