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POETRY ASSIGNMENT
MRS. CONOVER’S READING CLASSES
APRIL - POETRY MINI-BOOK
This is an easy one! You have been asked to select a book of poetry to read for this month’s project.
- LEARN Poetic Devices
- READ Poetry book of your choice.
- FIND six poems that illustrate a different poetic device.
- WRITE them in your mini-book
- ILLUSTRATE each page with a mini-drawing/clipart/picture.
- On the COVER write your name/title/author/date due
- On the BACK write all or part of your favorite poem and tell why you like it.
STANZA - The way ideas are grouped in poetry…like paragraphs for prose).
How many stanzas does your poem have?
PLANNING YOUR PROJECT:
The poetic devices we will be learning in this unit are explained below. If you discover that one of these is used in a poem you are reading, write the stanza on the lines below the device. (Include the title of the poem & page )
RHYME - When the ending sounds of words are the same. Does your poem rhyme? _________________________________________________________________
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IMAGERY - When poets want you to hear, feel, smell and taste what they are describing. Give examples of imagery from your poem.
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FREE VERSE - No real pattern. Is your poem an example of free verse? Is it free flowing? Tell why!
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ALLITERATION - The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences"
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ONOMATOPOEIA - Words that sound like their meanings. zoom, buzz, crackle, gurgle, hiss, pop, sizzle, snap, swoosh, whir, zip
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PERSONIFICATION - When an author gives human traits to non-humans. Give examples of personification found in your poem.
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SIMILE - Comparison using the words like or as. “The sky was like the ocean.” Give an example of a simile that was in your poem.
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METAPHOR - Comparison NOT using like or as. “The sky was an ocean.”
Give an example of a metaphor you found in your poem.
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CONNECT - Did it relate to your life in any way? How did you connect to the poem you selected?
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MOOD - The feeling you get from reading it. What is the mood of your poem?
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POETIC LICENSE - refers to the ability of a poet to ignore some of the minor requirements of grammar for poetic _________________________________________________________________
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REPETITION - the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.
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