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There once was a young man from Dealing Who caught the bus for Ealing It said on the door

There once was a young man from Dealing Who caught the bus for Ealing It said on the door Don’t spit on the floor So he jumped up and spat on the ceiling. Limericks. What is a limerick?. Limericks are humorous rhyming poems which have a pattern. Is composed of 5 lines.

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There once was a young man from Dealing Who caught the bus for Ealing It said on the door

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  1. There once was a young man from Dealing Who caught the bus for Ealing It said on the door Don’t spit on the floor So he jumped up and spat on the ceiling.

  2. Limericks

  3. What is a limerick? • Limericks are humorous rhyming poems which have a pattern. • Is composed of 5 lines. • Has aabba rhyme scheme

  4. What is a limerick? • Line 1 usually introduces the character. • Lines 1, 2 & 5 rhyme with each other. • Lines 3 and 4 also rhyme .

  5. Limericks • Limericks were originally written by Edward Lear

  6. Edward Lear • Born May 12, 1812 • Died January 29, 1888 • Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet. • He is renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized.

  7. A Limerick by Lear There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said 'It is just as I feared! -Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'

  8. Turn to page 598 in your literature textbook.

  9. Create a Limerick • Contains all four elements of a limerick (20 points) • School Appropriate (20 points) • Picture to match poem (30 points) • Neat (10 points) • Colorful- No white space (15 points) • Title uniquely written (5 points) Due Tomorrow!

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