Poetry Review

Poetry Review

This is your poetry review for the fall benchmark

Poetry Vocabulary

• There are lots of words that you need to be familiar with

• Let's take a look at a few

Multiple Choice

What is the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• Speaker

• Audience

• Narrator

• Author

Multiple Choice

What is language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• Poetry

• Words

• Figurative Languge

• Literal Lanugage

Multiple Choice

What is a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally (e.g., time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations). An extended metaphor is a metaphor in which the comparison is carried through several lines or even the entire literary work.

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

What is the basic rhythmic structure in verse, composed of stressed and unstressed syllables

• Meter

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Structure

Multiple Choice

What is the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage; mood can be expressed through imagery, word choice, setting, voice, and theme. For example, the mood evoked in Edgar Allan Poe’s work is gloomy and dark.

• Theme

• Tone

• Emotion

• Mood

Multiple Choice

What is figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities (e.g., necessity is the mother of invention)

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

What is a distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes such as a sonnet, blank verse, ballad, haiku, epic, lyric, etc.

• Structure

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Poetic Form

Multiple Choice

What is the time and place in which a narrative occurs. Elements of setting may include the physical, psychological, cultural, or historical background against which the story takes place.

• Theme

• Setting

• Plot

• Topic

Multiple Choice

What is the central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to morals and/or values and speaks to the human experience/ condition

• Topic

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

Multiple Choice

What is the author’s particular attitude, either stated or implied in the writing

• Mood

• Tone

• Meter

• Form

Multiple Choice

What is a pair of lines that rhyme within a stanza

• Quatrain

• Line

• Couplet

• Stanza

Vocabulary is important to understanding questions.

If you do not understand the vocabulary how can you be successful? Use a dictionary.

POETRY Analysis

• We use this technique to understand poetry

• The vocabulary will also help you understand this graphic organizer

Multiple Select

Check all that apply: Poetry...

• does not always have to rhyme

• is everywhere

• can be simple or complex

• can follow a story line

• has a theme

Poll

What is your comfort level with poetry?

• Very comfortable

• somewhat comfortable

• somewhat uncomfortable

• very uncomfortable

tomato harvest image courtesy of UC Davis Plant Sciences

Open Ended

Make an inference based on the image from the slide before.

"Based on the image I can infer.....

I know this because..."

Go to Canvas and read the poem "TOMATO HARVEST"

Come back once you are finished - leave the poem up in another tab

Multiple Choice

In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found “sweetness and pride” in the first tomato?

• He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes.

• He has planted a very sweet-tasting variety of tomato.

• Tomatoes are his favorite food to eat.

• He knows the next tomato will not taste as good.

Those losses made my harvest small: One bucketful of fruit was all— But when I picked my first and tried it, What sweetness and pride I found inside it.

In this last stanza we see the how much work went into the tomato harvest. The sweetness and pride is not only how sweet the tomato is BUT also how much work went into growing it.

Multiple Choice

Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows —

• the way the speaker feels about his brothers

• the speaker’s commitment to his garden

• the speaker’s lack of experience with gardening

• the changes the speaker notices in his plants

I watered and weeded those seedlings of mine

Braced the stalks with stakes and twine,

And watched for snails and worms—that bunch

Of pests for whom green leaves mean lunch.

This stanza is showing us just how much work went into growing the tomatoes.

Multiple Choice

Read these lines from the poem. "I felt beaten splashing out to see How little garden was left to me." The poet uses these lines to show that the speaker feels —

• defeated by the storm

• confused by the effect the rain had on the garden

• burdened by the amount of work required to manage a garden

• concerned that the storm has not ended

One night it rained so fiercely that

By dawn most plants were beaten flat;

I felt beaten splashing out to see

How little garden was left to me.

This stanza explains how destructive the storm was. This storm destroyed not only the garden but also the gardener's spirit.

Multiple Choice

The poet organizes the poem by —

• explaining the reasons for each of the speaker’s actions

• listing the growing phases of the speaker’s tomato plants

• presenting the order of events in the speaker’s experience

• noting the frequent changes in the speaker’s emotions

The poem is presented in chronological order of the growth and harvest of the tomato plant.

Multiple Choice

Which line from the poem presents a problem that the speaker cannot control?

• To keep away the birds that hoped to eat

• Of pests for whom green leaves mean lunch.

• Tomatoes in the strip of clay

• One night it rained so fiercely that

All of the lines presented a problem, the storm is the only problem that the speaker cannot fix or control.

Multiple Select

What do we analyze poems for... (check all that apply)

• lines, line breaks, stanzas, refrains, quatrain, couplets, etc.

• poetic features to determine form such as ballad, sonnet, lyric, free verse, etc.

• rhyme scheme (if any) and the rhyming pattern (regular or irregular)

• how the poet's sound and rhyme scheme contribute to the overall meaning

• how metric and rhyme scheme contribute to tone

Open Ended

Figurative language contributes to a poem by...

Poll

I have a better understanding of poetry and how to analyze it.

• strongly agree

• agree

• disagree

• strongly disagree