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Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was... Lesson PlanNeh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was... Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...

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Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.

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Concepts

alliteration, limericks, onomatopoeia, personification, edward lear

Additional Tags

syllabification, edsitement, lear, lear limericks, lear's life, mr. and mrs. spikky sparrow, national endowment for the humanities, stanza, the daddy long-legs and the fly, the duck and the kangaroo, the jumblies, the nutcrackers and the sugar-tong, the owl and the pussy cat, the table and the chair, couplet, limerick, limerick folklore, meter, nonsense poem, rhyme, rhyme scheme, syllable, verse, writing a limerick

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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