Poetry

Poetry

This week's assignments:

Edgenuity: Exploring Tone in Poetry

Iready: Explaining the Structure of a Poem

Membean: 15 minutes for 3 different days

Words to Know

• Tone: an attitude, manner, mood

• Theme: Important message the author wants to share

• Topic: the subject of the writing

• Slang: words or phrases that are informal

Multiple Select

The tone of a poem is the poet's

• attitude toward the subject and audience

• word choice and how it affects the images

• sentence structure and punctuation choices

• pattern of rhythm throughout each stanza

Multiple Choice

Read the passage and choose the word that best describes the tone. Alice got an A or her essay

And, I don't understand why.

She doesn't work as hard

or write as well as I do.

• jealous

• joyous

• peaceful

• grim

Multiple Choice

Choose the word that best describes the tone in the passage:

It had been another long day at achool.

I sighed as I started my homework,

Realizing

It would take forever to finish

• gloomy

• angry

• fearful

• calm

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines is the best example of slang?

• You ain't done a thing

• Back window's cracked

• It's not up to me

• I said, Neither am I