Today’s Target/Goal
• I can identify poetic elements and the
impact they have on poems.
Poetic Elements
• BrainPOP
• Rhythm
– Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each
line
– Regular pattern is called meter
• Rhyme
– Reinforces rhythm
– Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
– Rhyme scheme = pattern that the end-rhyming
words follow
Poetic Elements
• Repetition
– Use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once
– I will
• Alliteration
– Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of
words
– Mark, must, mine
• Assonance
– Repetition of vowel sounds in words that don’t end
with the same consonant
– Bow, down
Poetic Elements
• Figurative Language and Imagery
– Imagery – Appeals to one or more senses
• Vivid descriptions
– Figurative Language – Imaginative descriptions that
are not literally true
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Example - Afternoon on a Hill
– Annotate for the poetic elements
Poetic Elements
• Compare and contrast poetic elements
– Split your group up into two smaller groups
– One group analyzes characteristics of Willow and
Ginkgo’s poetic elements
– One group analyzes characteristics of Jabberwocky’s
poetic elements
– Share findings with whole group
– Underline similarities
– Star differences
• How do the poetic elements of each poem suit
the speaker and meaning?
Today’s Target/Goal
• I can identify poetic elements and the
impact they have on poems.
Analyzing Poetic Elements
• Stressed syllables and
unstressed syllables
– STRESSED syllables are
pronounced slightly louder and
longer and at a slightly higher
pitch than UNstressed syllables
– TED Ed
Analyzing Poetic Elements
Poems to
Compare
Characteristics
Rhythm and Rhyme
Repetition, Alliteration,
and Assonance
Figurative Language
and Imagery
When does the
author use imagery?
• How does it affect
the text?
• When does the
author use figurative
language?
• How does it affect
the text?
•
Jabberwocky • What is the rhyme
scheme?
• Is there a pattern of
stressed and
unstressed
Simile:
syllables?
Willow and
Ginkgo
• Are there words,
phrases, lines, etc.
that are repeated?
• How is alliteration
used?
• How is assonance
used?