Balderdash Poem by Pleasant Dabbs

I was asked to teach how to write poetry today
Thought we would go over some of the basics:

Stanza...to stutter in poetry- Stan's uh, Stan's uh and so on
Forms...wooden poetic structure that you pour cement in
Lyric... someone telling Ric to ly
Narrative... Not even a tive or nairy a tive
Ode...A limph node missing the ‘n'
Elegy...poem written for a funeral
Sonnet... a Petrarchan sonnet sung by the Swedish group ABBA
Ballad... an engagement song a man sings to his wife-to-be
Epic... a record label owned by Sony
Rime... video game developed by Tequila Works
Un-rimed...they discontinued the video game
Haiku... someone's response when asked if they wanted to take a hike...Hike who?
Limerick... When they asked Rick what he bought- A Lime Rick
AABBA... there are two groups named Abba, this the first one or the A Group
Anapestic... medicine taken for the flu
Meter...little over a yard
Feet...2 thirds of a meter
Blank verse...a poem written with invisible ink
Free Verse...a poem that doesn't cost anything
Iambic...the boy Bic affirming his name
Assonance...a donkey walking on top of a hill of ants
Consonance...Two cell-mates walking on the same hill
Onomatopoeia...word with all of the vowels but ‘u' with a tomato (missing the ‘t') on top
Simile...A smile with an extra ‘i'
Metaphor...For the first time you met your friend ‘Aphor'
Synecdoche... Christophe Doche - Faculty of Science and Engineering in Australia is a cynic
Metanymy...the first time I met a person from New York
Symbol...Something a drummer dings
Allegory...Al needs to let go of Ry
Personification... Person with a positively charged ion...(kind of ‘iffy')
Irony...Something that has a lot of iron in it
Hyperbole...energetic trunk of a tree
Sarcasm... A canyon crossed in 9 years and 5 days
Tone...a musical note
Mood...if in a good one, you'll write a poem
Atmosphere...the air you breathe
Imagery...Picture on the front of the Royal Bank of Canada
Tetrameter couplets...two fish swimming a little over a yard in distance
Trochees...two little
Spondees...when the (dee) fish spawn up the river
Dactyls... He tills the earth to find two digital-to-analog converters
Anapests...Mosquitos that are bothering Ana

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