The Tree That Time Built

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Fields

• Poetry is an imaginative awareness of something that is expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language, often producing an emotional response.
• A stanza is a recurring group of two or more lines in a poem in terms of length and rhyme pattern.
• End rhyme is when a rhyme occurs at the end of two or more lines in a stanza.
• Poetic license refers to the liberty taken by a writer to produce a desired effect by deviating from conventional form, established rule, fact, or logic.

Lesson 2: The Sea

• Personification is a figure of speech that gives an inanimate thing human qualities.
• A metaphor is a comparison between two unrelated things. (If it uses like or as in the comparison, it is a simile.)

Lesson 3: Prehistoric

• Scientists learn about life in the distant past by examining fossil remains.

Lesson 4: Plants

• A shape poem, also known as a concrete poem, is constructed so that the writing takes a shape that reflects the subject matter of the poem.
• A hyphen joins together compound words and separates words that start on one line and continue on the next line.

Lesson 5: Amphibians and Reptiles

• A dash is a punctuation mark used to introduce, clarify, or set off information in a sentence.
• Imagery is the use of vivid words or figurative language that appeals to one or more of the reader's senses, often causing the reader to form mental images in her mind.

Lesson 6: Insects

• Parentheses are punctuation marks used to set off words or phrases that provide extra information.
• A haiku is a poem of Japanese origin that creates a mental picture in the reader's mind and has three lines (5/7/5 syllables).
• A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story.
• Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound in neighboring words.

Lesson 7: Birds

• Poets convey meaning through word choice, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, rhythm, and rhyme.

Lesson 8: Mammals

• An ellipsis is a group of three dots that shows you omitted words or sentences from a quotation.
• The ellipsis is also a tool used in poetry and creative writing to communicate hesitation or confusion or to show that a thought is trailing off.
• Lyric poems have a song-like quality, are usually about feeling or moods, and express the observations and feelings of the writer.

Lesson 9: Preservation

• Figurative language techniques help the poet convey meaning and tone.

Final Project: Poetry Lapbook

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