Skill Development/Guided Practice
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Authors use rhyme and repetition to impact the reader’s understanding of the message in a text.
• Alliteration is a repetition of beginning sounds.
America for Me
by Henry Van Dyke
So it’s home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be,
In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in the hair;
And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living... there is no place like home.
1. The repetition of “home again” adds
emotion to the poem by
A explaining that his home is
America
B expressing a dislike for travel
C conveying feelings of
longing for home
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2. How does the rhyme and repetition
help convey the message of
patriotism in the poem?
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Analyze the impact of rhyme and repetition of sounds in text.
Skill Development/Guided Practice (continued)
Authors use rhyme and repetition to impact the reader’s understanding of the message in a text.
• Alliteration is a repetition of beginning sounds.
Summary: An insecure woman borrows a friend’s diamond necklace for a party, and accidentally loses it. Instead of telling her friend that she lost
it, she spends `years trying to scrape up the money to pay for a new real diamond necklace. After finally replacing it for the owner, the friend lets
her know that the original necklace was a fake.
excerpt from
The Necklace
by Guy De Maupassant
1. Mme.6 Loisel experienced the horrible life the needy
live. 2. She played her part, however, with sudden heroism.
3. That frightful debt had to be paid. 4. She would pay it.
5. She learned to do the heavy housework, to perform the
hateful duties of cooking.
1. The use of alliteration adds a feeling of
loathing7 to the passage by
A helping explain the kind of life the
needy live
B expressing Mme. Loisel’s new
appreciation for hard work
C expressing the dislike Mme.
Loisel has for her new lifestyle
2. How does the alliteration help
convey the message of Mme.
Loisel’s tough, new lifestyle?
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Vocabulary
6
7
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abbreviation for Madame
hate or despise something
Analyze the impact of rhyme and repetition of sounds in text.
Skill Development/Guided Practice (continued)
Summary: Late at night, a man is sitting in his room, half reading, half falling asleep, trying to forget his lost love, Lenore. Suddenly, he hears
someone (or something) knocking at the door. He calls out, apologizing to the "visitor" he imagines is outside. Then he opens the door and finds
nothing. He reassures himself that it is just the wind against the window. So he goes and opens the window, and in flies a raven.
excerpt from
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary8, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore9-While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber10 door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-Only this and nothing more."
1. The use of rhyme and repetition adds
curiosity to the poem by
A helping express the narrator’s
sleepy mood
B describing what that narrator is doing
in his chamber late at night
C conveying the unease someone
might feel when an unexpected
guest knocks late at night
2. Analyze the impact of rhyme and
repetition of sounds on the message
of the text.
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Vocabulary
8
gloomy or depressing (synonym)
old traditional stories
10 room
9
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Independent Practice
Authors use rhyme and repetition to impact the reader’s understanding of the message in a text.
• Alliteration is a repetition of beginning sounds.
excerpt from The Bells
by Edgar Allen Poe
Hear the sledges1 with the bells Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that over sprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic2 rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation3 that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
1. The repetition of “tinkle, tinkle,
tinkle” adds cheerfulness to the
poem by
A expressing how cold the icy
night has become
B drawing attention to the happy
sound that ringing bells make
C expressing what the sledge
sounds like in the snow
2. Analyze the impact of rhyme and
repetition of sounds on the
message of the text.
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Vocabulary
1 sleigh
2
3
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secret or mysterious meaning
the ringing sound of bells
Analyze the impact of rhyme and repetition of sounds in text.