Station 1: Form
After completing your notes for this section, complete the following activities using pages 740-741 in
your literature book. Be sure to answer the questions in complete sentences.
Use the poem “Pretty Words” to answer the following questions:
1. How many lines make up the first stanza? How many are in the second stanza?
2. In the first stanza, each group of end-rhyming words is highlighted in the same color. Identify the
end-rhyming words in the second stanza. Example: words, birds, herds, curds; fish, swish, wish,
dish
3. Compare the ideas expressed in the first stanza with those in the second stanza. Explain the
similarities, and speak specifically about her use of figurative language.
Use the excerpt from “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem” to answer the following question:
1. Identify three characteristics that make this poem unconventional.
2. Now, use what you know about traditional and organic poems to write your own. You may choose
to write either a traditional or an organic poem. Use figurative language to enhance your poem.
Station 2: Poetic Elements – Sound Devices
After completing your notes for this section, complete the following activities using pages 742-743 in
your literature book. Be sure to answer the questions in complete sentences.
Use the poem “Fire and Ice” to answer the following questions:
1. What is the metrical pattern of the lines in the box? Use the box in the upper right corner of page
743 for guidance.
2. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme?
Use the excerpt from “The Bells” to answer the following questions:
1. Identify four examples of sound devices used in this poem. Highlight where the device is being
used. Example: Alliteration -- Which circle slowly with a silken swish
2. What effects do these sound devices create? Explain how they add to Poe’s description of the bells.
Now, use what you know about sound devices to write a poem that is at least 6 lines. Write your poem on
the lines below. When you are finished, determine the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme that you used,
and write this underneath the poem.
Station 3: Poetic Elements – Imagery and Figurative Language
After completing your notes for this section, complete the following activities using pages 744-745 in
your literature book. Be sure to answer the questions in complete sentences.
Use the poem “Miss Rosie” to answer the following questions:
1. Record three unusual comparisons and identify them as similes or metaphors.
2. What image of Miss Rosie does the figurative language convey?
3. Find the hyperbole and explain the effect that this has on the poem.
4. Reread the boxed lines. What is the tone (the speaker’s attitude toward Miss Rosie)? Explain how
this affects your impression of Miss Rosie.
Now, your group will need to use what they know about imagery and figurative language to choose song
lyrics that use this technique. Spend some time talking with your group about songs that you could
choose. Once you have decided upon a song, record at least 6 lines of the lyrics that show the use of
imagery and figurative language. Use classroom appropriate language.
Here’s an example:
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin?
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
Cause baby, you’re a firework.
Come on, show ‘em what your worth