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Time to enjoy

1. What is the theme of the poem?

2. What is the mood of the poem?

3. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or
actions they refer to. For example,

• hiss • meow • buzz • tick-tock

Find an example of onomatopoeia in the poem.

4. Write a set of five rhyming words from the poem.
5. The poet repeats some phrases across stanzas. For example,

• Drop an unkind word

• in a minute you forget,

• But there’s little waves a-flowing, and there’s ripples circling yet

Why do you think the poet does so?

Fun time

Colour the clouds that contain kind words green. Colour the clouds that contain

unkind words red.

You are not Wow! You look You look
worth it. great today. so fat.

I can’t thank You are an
You won’t be
able to do it. you enough for amazing team
your help. player.

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