words whose sounds suggest their meanings sight She kicked the bucket repeating sounds at the end of words Shel Silverstein scary touch a poem with three lines of 5/7/5 syllables repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words repeating words in a poem quick like a cheetah oink comparison using like or as taste lion=courage a group of lines in a poem comparison does not use like or as the beat of a poem pow a poem that uses words to form pictures exaggeration something that represents a thing beyond itself happy The leaves danced in the street You're a firework! heart=love It's raining cats and dogs the overall feeling of a poem cat, hat sound the moral or lesson of the poem mysterious giving human qualities to an inanimate object "Don't judge a book by its cover" dove=peace row, row, row your boat known, grown the author of the poem words do not have their literal meaning a poem without set rhyme or rhythm writing that uses the five senses smell sad I ate a million french fries alliteration Poetry is pretty popular as busy as a bee "Life has its ups and downs" 5 7 5 words whose sounds suggest their meanings sight She kicked the bucket repeating sounds at the end of words Shel Silverstein scary touch a poem with three lines of 5/7/5 syllables repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words repeating words in a poem quick like a cheetah oink comparison using like or as taste lion=courage a group of lines in a poem comparison does not use like or as the beat of a poem pow a poem that uses words to form pictures exaggeration something that represents a thing beyond itself happy The leaves danced in the street You're a firework! heart=love It's raining cats and dogs the overall feeling of a poem cat, hat sound the moral or lesson of the poem mysterious giving human qualities to an inanimate object "Don't judge a book by its cover" dove=peace row, row, row your boat known, grown the author of the poem words do not have their literal meaning a poem without set rhyme or rhythm writing that uses the five senses smell sad I ate a million french fries alliteration Poetry is pretty popular as busy as a bee "Life has its ups and downs" 5 7 5
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
B-words whose sounds suggest their meanings
G-sight
N-She kicked the bucket
O-repeating sounds at the end of words
O-Shel Silverstein
G-scary
O-touch
I-a poem with three lines of 5/7/5 syllables
B-repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
G-repeating words in a poem
N-quick like a cheetah
I-oink
B-comparison using like or as
I-taste
G-lion=courage
O-a group of lines in a poem
G-comparison does not use like or as
N-the beat of a poem
N-pow
B-a poem that uses words to form pictures
N-exaggeration
I-something that represents a thing beyond itself
O-happy
I-The leaves danced in the street
O-You're a firework!
N-heart=love
I-It's raining cats and dogs
B-the overall feeling of a poem
B-cat, hat
B-sound
N-the moral or lesson of the poem
I-mysterious
B-giving human qualities to an inanimate object
G-"Don't judge a book by its cover"
O-dove=peace
O-row, row, row your boat
I-known, grown
B-the author of the poem
B-words do not have their literal meaning
G-a poem without set rhyme or rhythm
I-writing that uses the five senses
N-smell
N-sad
G-I ate a million french fries
G-alliteration
O-Poetry is pretty popular
I-as busy as a bee
O-"Life has its ups and downs"
G-5
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