Poetry Review

Poetry Review

By Amanda Enriquez

Word Cloud

What do you remember about Poetry?

This is when the poet decides to make the rest of the thought or sentence end on a different line or stanza.
It often signifies a double meaning for the idea.

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Let's Talk Enjambment

I will read it out loud first.
Then you need to read it again and annotate for these things:

• ​Imagery

• words you may not know

• what is the stanza saying

• enjambments and what double meaning they may have.

Read the Poem

Word Cloud

What poetic devices did you notice? Examples: Imagery, Metaphor, enjambment, rhyme

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Mark the Imagery

Open Ended

Choose one of the enjambments and tell me what are some of the different meanings the lines can have. Make sure to tell me what lines you are looking at.

Multiple Choice

The word plummets in line 33 of the poem indicates that the narwhal's pulse--

• becomes irregular.

• drops rapidly.

• recovers slowly.

• becomes difficult to detect.

Multiple Choice

The three stanza breaks in lines 1-8 of the poem each interrupt a thought the speaker is expressing. How do these interruptions affect the readers?

• By encouraging the reader to respond to the idea expressed in the first part of each thought.

• By calling attention to the unexpected completion of each thought.

• By creating questions about the reliability of the speaker as a narrator.

• By emphasizing the variety of emotions experienced by the speaker.

Multiple Select

Read Lines 3-6 of the Poem. What effect does the poet's use of figurative language in these lines create?​ ​ Click the answers where the the effect IS created in the Poem. There are multiple answers.

• The speaker is dissatisfied with the outcome of a major project.

• Demonstrates that the speaker is highly skeptical of a claim.

• Shows that the speaker is strongly driven by curiosity.

• Suggests that the speaker feels that the search for facts resembles a search for prey.

Poll

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