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Category Excellent 100 Good 88 Fair 78 Poor 68 Missing 58
Deadline Submits work Work is 1 day Work is 2 days Work is 3 to 5 Work has not
ahead of or by late. late. days late. been turned in.
deadline.
Title The title totally The title The poem has a The poem has
relates to the somewhat title. no title.
poem. relates to the
poem.
Organization and The form of the The form of the The form of the The form of the Writer thinks
Overall impact poem is poem is poem should be poem is not poem is
appropriate to appropriate to more appropriate to completed
the subject. The the subject. The appropriate to the subject. The because words
poem enables poem enables the subject. The poem does not are put on
the reader to the reader to poem enables enable the paper, or the
see, hear, feel, see, hear, feel, the reader to reader to see, poem has not
or think about or think about see, hear, feel, hear, feel, or been turned in.
the subject in a the subject. or think about think about the
new way or in a the subject, but subject.
more potent this is
way than ever accomplished
before. through clichs,
worn-out
images, or
other
predictable
choices.
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Elements of Sensory details Sensory details Sensory details There is no use Writer thinks
poetry and figurative and figurative and figurative or poem is
language create language language may consistently completed
vivid images contribute to be overused, confusing or because words
that contribute the meaning of underused, or inappropriate are put on
significantly to the poem; inappropriate to use of sensory paper, or
the meaning of sound devices, the subject; details, because the
the poem; such as rhyme, sound devices figurative poem has not
sound devices, alliteration, or may be language, or been turned in.
such as rhyme, onomatopoeia, overused or sound devices.
alliteration, or also add to the underused, or Words may be
onomatopoeia, meaning of the they may fail to misused or
are used poem. Most add to the unclear.
effectively and word choices meaning of the
contribute to are precise. poem. Word
the meaning of choices may be
the poem. Word vague,
choice is vivid repetitive, or
and exact imprecise.
throughout.
Grammar, Usage, There are few There are some The poem is The poem is The poem is
Mechanics, and or no errors in errors in difficult to consistently hopelessly mired in
errors.
Spelling mechanics, mechanics, understand at difficult to
usage, usage, times because understand
grammar, or grammar, and of errors in because of
spelling. spelling. mechanics, errors in
usage, mechanics,
grammar, or usage,
spelling. grammar, or
spelling.
Vocabulary The poem is The poem The poem The poem lacks Writer thinks poem
filled with includes many includes some description and is completed
because words are
descriptive descriptive descriptive does not allow put on paper.
vocabulary that elements and is words and the reader to
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appeals to the appealing. phrases. visualize the
reader. poem.