Key learning points

1. A poet is someone who writes poems.
2. Poems try to use words in a special way to create a feeling or to tell a story.
3. James Carter is a poet who uses rhyming words in his poems.
4. Repetition in poems can make the poem fun to say and easy to remember.
5. James Carter uses onomatopoeia which helps us to imagine what sounds can be heard in a story or a poem.

Keywords

• Poet - a person who writes poetry

• Poem - a piece of creative writing that often has a specific rhythm, structure or pattern

• Onomatopoeia - a type of word that sounds like what it describes

• Rhyme - repetition in the sounds at the ends of words

• Repetition - the repeated use of sounds, words or phrases

Common misconception