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Cinquain Poetry: Form and Examples

Learn about cinquain poetry, an unrhymed five-line poem structure, with examples and a guide on creating your own cinquains. Explore the format and structure of topic, description, action words, and synonyms for this poetic style.

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Cinquain Poetry: Form and Examples

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  1. Cinquain

  2. The Definition An unrhymed poem consisting of five formatted lines.

  3. Mantis Stick Predator Stalking, preening, searching Slenderly fashioned by nature Killer

  4. The Format One word topic two describing words three action words A four word phrase A synonym for the topic

  5. Rain Heavy, awesome Drenching, soaking, penetrating Renewing the earth’s firmament Soil-soaker

  6. Cinquains do not have titles. However, the first line serves as the announced topic. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson43/RWT016-1.PDF

  7. Now let’s try some! http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson51/cinqgraphic-frog.pdf

  8. Valentine Cinquain Classmate’s Name ___________________________ Two adjectives describing them __________________ __________________ Three –ing words they do _____________ ________________ ________________ Four word phrase about them __________________________________________________________ A one word synonym for your classmate _____________________________

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