Learning Objective : Today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry

Learning Objective: Today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry.

•Identify = point out•analyze = study the different parts of•characteristics = individual qualities

What are we going to identify and analyze today?

The characteristics of poetry!

It is important to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry because it will allow you to better understand the genre of poetry and to know about the author’s purpose or

message.

What are other reasons it is important to identify and analyze the characteristics of

poetry?To understand that authors write poetry to entertain!

Have you heard of the Black Eyed Peas?

Music is like Poetry. It too, tells a story.

I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good nightThat tonight’s gonna be a good nightThat tonight’s gonna be a good good night (x3)Tonight’s the night nightLet’s live it upI got my moneyLet’s spend it upGo out and smash itLike Oh My GodJump off that sofaLet’s get get OFFI know that we’ll have a ballIf we get downAnd go outAnd just loose it all…

I Gotta Feelin by Black Eyed Peas

PoetryPoetry is rhythmic or concentrated

language that uses figures of speech and imagery. It is designed to appeal to your

emotions and imagination.

Here are some characteristics of poetry:

Characteristics of poetry

Characteristics of Poetry

• What is rhyme?

• What is simile?

• What is metaphor?

Words that have the same ending sound.

A figure of speech in which things are compared using “like” or “as.”

A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is the other

Characteristics of Poetry

• What is personification?

• What is alliteration?

• What is onomatopoeia?

Repetition of words with the same beginning sound.

A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities.

Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to.

A Rhyming Poem

Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.

John Foster

A Rhyming Poem

Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.

John Foster

Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

A Rhyming Poem

Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.

John Foster

Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

Rhyming words

A Rhyming Poem

Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.

John Foster

Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

Rhyming words

A Rhyming Poem

Marty Smarty went to a partyIn her jumbo jet.After tea she jumped in the seaAnd got her pants all wet.

John Foster

Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

A

BAB

pattern

More RhymesSpaghetti! Spaghetti

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!You’re wonderful stuff,I love you, spaghetti,I can’t get enough.You’re covered with sauceAnd you’re sprinkled with cheese,Spaghetti! Spaghetti!Oh, give me some please.Jack Prelutsky

More RhymesSpaghetti! Spaghetti

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!You’re wonderful stuff,I love you, spaghetti,I can’t get enough.You’re covered with sauceAnd you’re sprinkled with cheese,Spaghetti! Spaghetti!Oh, give me some please.Jack Prelutsky

Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

More RhymesSpaghetti! Spaghetti

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!You’re wonderful stuff,I love you, spaghetti,I can’t get enough.You’re covered with sauceAnd you’re sprinkled with cheese,Spaghetti! Spaghetti!Oh, give me some please.

By Jack Prelutsky

A

A

AB

B

C

B

C

What characteristic of poetry does this poem demonstrate?

Down the slippery slide they slid

Sitting slightly sideways;

Slipping swiftly see them skid

On holidays and Fridays.

Alliteration

What characteristic of poetry does this poem demonstrate?

A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?”“Let’s fly,” said the flea.“Let’s flee,” said the fly.So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.

Alliteration

More Tongue Twisters

“Night, night, Knight”, said one Knight to the other knight the other night. “Night, night, Knight.”

A Dream Deferredby Langston Hughes

1. What happens to a dream deferred?2. Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun? 3. Or fester like a sore--

And then run? 4. Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

5 Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

6. Or does it explode?

Can you identify the similes in this poem?

What is your interpretation of each line?

Lesson Idea: Before reading the poem, have students write a paragraph about a time they really wanted something and it was denied. After reading the poem, instruct students to rewrite the paragraph using similes

Tranquility

Time slidesa gentle oceanwaves upon waves,washing the shore,loving the shore.

Can you identify the metaphors in this poem?

How does the poem make you feel?

How do the metaphors support your feeling?

Why is it important to identify and analyze the characteristics

of poetry?

To be able to understand an author’s purpose or message.

Independent practice