Grade 5 English Home Language Term 2 Weeks 5&6: Unit “Animals in the home” Listening and speaking - Perform an oral poem
GRADE 5
A poem that tells a story
Name:
Be fore you read, work on your own
1. Skim through the poem and find the main idea .
2. Read the title and name some of the characters.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
by Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat;
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the moon above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love!
What a beautiful Pussy you are,—
You are,
What a beautiful Pussy you are!”
Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl!
How wonderful sweet you sing!
Oh, let us be married,—too long we have tarried,—
But what shall we do for a ring?”
They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in a wood a piggy-wig stood
With a ring in the end of his nose,—
His nose,
With a ring in the end of his nose.
“Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?” Said the piggy, “I will,”
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined upon mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon,
And hand in hand on the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the moon,—
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon
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- Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words close
to each other.
For example: Connie’s clever cat caught a cute rat.
- Assonance: Assonance is also called ‘vowel rhyme’. Assonance is the repetition of
vowel sounds.
For example: Go and mow the lawn
- Repetition or consonance: is the simple repeating of a word or sound, within a
sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to
secure emphasis.
Example: A horse is a horse, of course, of course
- Irony: irony refers to a difference between the way something appears and what
is actually true.
- Metaphor: comparison between two things or
objects that are very different from each other but
have some characteristics common between them
- Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison
of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
(e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Analyse the poem:
1. Since this is a story poem name the characters, the plot and the setting.
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2. Sequence the story of the poem in five sentences.
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Grade 5 English Home Language Term 2 Weeks 5&6: Unit “Animals in the home” Listening and speaking - Perform an oral poem
After you read
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4. Do you notice any examples of assonance in this poem?
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5. Do you notice any examples of alliteration in this poem?
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6. Do you notice any examples of repetition in this poem?
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7. Is there any irony in this poem?
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8. What is the mood of the poem?
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9. What do you notice about the rhyme pattern in this poem?
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10.Did the owl and the pussycat actually get married in the poem?
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11.Do you notice a metaphor in the poem?
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12.Do you notice a simile in the poem?
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13.What is your opinion of this poem?
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Grade 5 English Home Language Term 2 Weeks 5&6: Unit “Animals in the home” Listening and speaking - Perform an oral poem
3. What is the main idea or theme of the poem? Is there any personification in this
poem? Explain your answer.