Poetry | Inquiry | End Rhyme | Alliteration | Assonance | Consonance |

LI: to identify purposes for poems

This week we were learning about Poetry. Poetry is a text for communicating ideas and expressing feelings to people. Potry can include sound patterns. They are rhyme and rhythm. Rhyming is repeating sounds in words. There are four kinds of rhyme. Consonance, End Rhyme, Alliteration, and assonance.

We learnt about rhymes and rhythm by highlighting what 4 different poems looked like, what the poem sounded like and what the poem was talking about. We needed to, using the highlighters, write at the bottom of the poem one of the answers to the 3 questions.

Consonance is a repeated consonant sound (Opposite to vowels). For example:  'Drop and Hop', Said the man in with the Top. This has consonance because in the example, Croak, Cry and Crocodile have the same consonant sound at the start.

End Rhyme is having text and words in that text, have sounds that sound alike. e.g, Hickory Dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. Dock and Clock have the 'ock' sound in them. This makes them rhyme.

Alliteration is repeating the beginning sounds in a word. Example: Croak and Cry, Went the Crocodile Crew. The majority of the beginning letters were 'C'. This makes an Alliteration because most words have the same start.

Lastly is Assonance. Assonance is repeating vowel sounds in words and text. From plants, come ants. From ants come itchy pants ect. The assonance in this example is 'ants'. The word ants in this example can be found in the word pants and plants.