learning objective : today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry
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Learning Objective : Today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry. Identify = point out analyze = study the different parts of characteristics = individual qualities. What are we going to identify and analyze today?. The characteristics of poetry!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Learning Objective: Today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry.
•Identify = point out•analyze = study the different parts of•characteristics = individual qualities
What are we going to identify and analyze today?
The characteristics of poetry!
It is important to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry because it will allow you to better understand the genre of poetry and to know about the author’s purpose or
message.
What are other reasons it is important to identify and analyze the characteristics of
poetry?To understand that authors write poetry to entertain!
Have you heard of the Black Eyed Peas?
Music is like Poetry. It too, tells a story.
I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good nightThat tonight’s gonna be a good nightThat tonight’s gonna be a good good night (x3)Tonight’s the night nightLet’s live it upI got my moneyLet’s spend it upGo out and smash itLike Oh My GodJump off that sofaLet’s get get OFFI know that we’ll have a ballIf we get downAnd go outAnd just loose it all…
I Gotta Feelin by Black Eyed Peas
PoetryPoetry is rhythmic or concentrated
language that uses figures of speech and imagery. It is designed to appeal to your
emotions and imagination.
Here are some characteristics of poetry:
Characteristics of poetry
Characteristics of Poetry
• What is rhyme?
• What is simile?
• What is metaphor?
Words that have the same ending sound.
A figure of speech in which things are compared using “like” or “as.”
A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is the other
Characteristics of Poetry
• What is personification?
• What is alliteration?
• What is onomatopoeia?
Repetition of words with the same beginning sound.
A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities.
Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to.
A Rhyming Poem
Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.
John Foster
A Rhyming Poem
Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?
A Rhyming Poem
Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?
Rhyming words
A Rhyming Poem
Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?
Rhyming words
A Rhyming Poem
Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.
John Foster
Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?
A
BAB
pattern
More RhymesSpaghetti! Spaghetti
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!You’re wonderful stuff,I love you, spaghetti,I can’t get enough.You’re covered with sauceAnd you’re sprinkled with cheese,Spaghetti! Spaghetti!Oh, give me some please.Jack Prelutsky
More RhymesSpaghetti! Spaghetti
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!You’re wonderful stuff,I love you, spaghetti,I can’t get enough.You’re covered with sauceAnd you’re sprinkled with cheese,Spaghetti! Spaghetti!Oh, give me some please.Jack Prelutsky
Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?
More RhymesSpaghetti! Spaghetti
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!You’re wonderful stuff,I love you, spaghetti,I can’t get enough.You’re covered with sauceAnd you’re sprinkled with cheese,Spaghetti! Spaghetti!Oh, give me some please.
By Jack Prelutsky
A
A
AB
B
C
B
C
What characteristic of poetry does this poem demonstrate?
Down the slippery slide they slid
Sitting slightly sideways;
Slipping swiftly see them skid
On holidays and Fridays.
Alliteration
What characteristic of poetry does this poem demonstrate?
A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?”“Let’s fly,” said the flea.“Let’s flee,” said the fly.So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.
Alliteration
More Tongue Twisters
“Night, night, Knight”, said one Knight to the other knight the other night. “Night, night, Knight.”
A Dream Deferredby Langston Hughes
1. What happens to a dream deferred?2. Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun? 3. Or fester like a sore--
And then run? 4. Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?
5 Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
6. Or does it explode?
Can you identify the similes in this poem?
What is your interpretation of each line?
Lesson Idea: Before reading the poem, have students write a paragraph about a time they really wanted something and it was denied. After reading the poem, instruct students to rewrite the paragraph using similes
Tranquility
Time slidesa gentle oceanwaves upon waves,washing the shore,loving the shore.
Can you identify the metaphors in this poem?
How does the poem make you feel?
How do the metaphors support your feeling?
Why is it important to identify and analyze the characteristics
of poetry?
To be able to understand an author’s purpose or message.
Independent practice