Literary Examples of Poetry for Grade 2: Classic and Modern Poems

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 📝 Poetry uses words in a special way to create rhythm and sometimes rhyme.
• 👂 Rhyme is when words sound alike at the end, like 'cat' and 'hat'.
• 🌟 Poems can be about anything: animals, nature, feelings, or silly things!
• 🎨 Poets use imagery to help you imagine what they are describing.
• 📜 Classic poems are older and have been around for a long time.
• 💻 Modern poems are newer and can be different styles.

✍️ Practice Quiz

1. What is rhyme?
   1. A type of bird.
   2. Words that sound alike at the end.
   3. A kind of tree.


2. Which of these is an example of rhyme?
   1. Blue and green
   2. Sun and moon
   3. Cat and hat


3. What do poems often use to help you imagine?
   1. Imagery
   2. Numbers
   3. Maps


4. What are classic poems?
   1. New poems
   2. Old poems
   3. Funny poems


5. Which of these is something a poem might be about?
   1. Aliens
   2. Animals
   3. Vegetables


6. What is a modern poem?
   1. An old poem
   2. A new poem
   3. A sad poem


7. What do poets use?
   1. Words
   2. Bricks
   3. Paint