Express Yourself Essential

Question:
Genre: Poetry
 Lyric poetry expresses thoughts and feelings. It often uses a regular How do you express
pattern of sounds. Lines may be grouped into small units called stanzas. that something is
 Free verse poetry expresses thoughts and feelings with carefully chosen important to you?
words. It has no set rhyming pattern or line length.

Comprehension Skill: Theme

 The theme of a poem is the message, or big
idea, that the poet wishes to communicate.
 Identifying poetic elements and key details can Spelling
help readers identify a poem’s theme.
Words
1. distance
2. importance
Vocabulary Strategy: Simile and Metaphor 3. balance
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4. attendance
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 “ ” “ ” 5. absence
o 6. performance
7. dependence
8. substance
Vocabulary Words: 9. disturbance
10. appearance
1. barren—lifeless and not able to grow anything 11. assistance
2. expression—putting thoughts or feelings into words or
12. ignorance
actions
3. meaningful—something that has importance or a 13. brilliance
purpose 14. ambulance
4. plumes—big, fluffy feathers or feathery parts
15. residence
5. alliteration—the repetition of the same consonant sound
at the beginning of a group of words 16. radiance
6. lyric—a short poem that expresses personal feelings 17. resistance
7. meter—a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed
18. reluctance
syllables
8. stanza—a group of lines in a poem 19. persistence
20. hesitance