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Poetry Exit Slip A

Directions:
Circle each stanza in blue.
Circle and hook rhyming words in orange.
Underline repetition in green.
Cookies Are My Favorite Snack - Anonymous
Cookies are my favorite snack.
While I eat I smack, smack, smack.
Each flavor is so very sweet,
But chocolate chip cannot be beat.
My sister sits on them without one care.
I said, "Mom, it's just not fair!"
"Don't worry dear," my mother said.
"Cookies are hidden under my bed!"
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Directions: Answer the following questions.
1.) What are stanzas? ___________________________________________________________
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2.) What is a rhyme? ___________________________________________________________
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3.) What is repetition?___________________________________________________________
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4.) What is the main idea of this poem? ____________________________________________

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Challenge: Write a two stanza poem that has rhyme and repetition.
*Remember to skip lines for your stanzas.

*Remember to keep your rhyming words at the end of your lines.

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Name: _______________________________________

Date:________________________

Poetry Exit Slip B

Directions:
Circle each stanza in blue.
Circle and hook rhyming words in orange.
Underline repetition in green.
Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
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Directions: Answer the following questions.
1.) What are stanzas? ___________________________________________________________
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2.) What is a rhyme? ___________________________________________________________
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3.) What is repetition?___________________________________________________________

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4.) What is the main idea of this poem? ____________________________________________

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Challenge: Write a two stanza poem that has rhyme and repetition.
*Remember to skip lines for your stanzas.
*Remember to keep your rhyming words at the end of your lines.
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Name: _______________________________________Date:________________________

Poetry Exit Slip C

Directions:
Circle each stanza in blue.
Circle and hook rhyming words in orange.
Underline repetition in green.
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Glossary:
diverged- separate, go in two different directions
trodden- walking
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Directions: Answer the following questions.

1.) What are stanzas? ___________________________________________________________

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2.) What is a rhyme? ___________________________________________________________
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3.) What is repetition?___________________________________________________________
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4.) What is the author trying to tell us in the poem The Road Not Taken? _________________
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Challenge: Write a two stanza poem that has rhyme and repetition.
*Remember to skip lines for your stanzas.
*Remember to keep your rhyming words at the end of your lines.
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