Poetry Lesson

Poetry Unit Introduction

Regalado 7th Grade English

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​Directions:

​Read through the slides, and answer the questions that follow.

Multiple Choice

Assonance

• the repetition of an initial consonant song in a series of words

• the repetition of of internal vowel sounds in a series of words

• the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words

Multiple Choice

Consonance

• the repetition of an initial consonant song in a series of words

• the repetition of of internal vowel sounds in a series of words

• the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words

Multiple Choice

Alliteration

• the repetition of an initial consonant song in a series of words

• the repetition of of internal vowel sounds in a series of words

• the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words

Multiple Choice

Onomatopoeia

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Multiple Choice

Simile

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Multiple Choice

Personification

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Multiple Choice

Metaphor

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Multiple Choice

Rhyme and Rhythm are the same.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The repetition of sounds in a poem

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Onomatopoeia

• none of these

Multiple Choice

The pattern of sounds in a poem

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Onomatopoeia

• none of these

Multiple Choice

Iambic Pentameter is a specific rhythm found in all Shakespearean Sonnets.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Iambic Pentameter is a rhythm found in all Shakespearean Sonnets.

It consists of...

• Ten syllable lines

• 5 metric feet, or iambs

• one unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable

• All of these

Open Ended

Which types of poetry are you most familiar with?

Poll

How many poets can you name?

• 0

• 1-2

• 3-4

• more

Multiple Choice

Which type of poetry originated in Japan?

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Sonnet

• Pantoum

• Ballad

Multiple Choice

Which type of poetry originated in England?

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Sonnet

• Pantoum

• Ballad

​Our Focus

​We will be reading and analyzing a few different types of poems, but we will be writing the folowing types.

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• Haiku

• Free Verse

• Shakespearean Sonnet

Multiple Select

Haiku poems

• do not rhyme

• are often about nature

• are written in present tense

• consist of three lines

• floow a 5-7-5 syllable rythm

Multiple Choice

Free verse poems

• may or may not rhyme

• vary in length

• do not have a specific rythm

• all of these

Multiple Choice

All sonnets contain ____ lines.

• 10

• 12

• 14

• 16

Multiple Choice

A stanza is like a paragraph in a poem.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Shakespearean sonnets are broken into ____ stanzas.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 6

Multiple Choice

The Rhyme Scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet is

• ABAB

  CDCD

  EFEF

  GG

• ABBA

  BCCB

  CDDC

  EE

• ABAB

  BCBC

  CDCD

  EE

• AABB

  CCDD

  EEFF

  GG

• BLAH

  BLAH

  BLAH

  BLAH

Poll

Have you ever read a Shakespearean sonnet?

• Yes

• No

• I'm not sure