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Practice Exercise 16 A, B
Limericks
- Use the reading process to guide you in reading the following limerick.
- Skim the title and poem quickly
- Predict what the poem is about
- Think of questions to answer while you read
- Read the poem twice aloud without stopping
- Read the poem again carefully
- Answer the questions
There once was a student who said
I wish I had stayed home in bed
But how could I keep
My eyeballs asleep
With all these words in my head?
Margaret
Harriman
- Answer the questions.
- What is the rhyme scheme for this limerick?
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- Summarise the poem in a paragraph.
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