POETRY+UNIT+CENTER

Poetry Lesson (Mrs. Ross A216) [|**http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/index.html**]**. ** Read the information in the blue box. 4. Keep up with the ones you get wrong and study that literary element again. Retake that question if necessary. 5. Choose a figurative language (literary element) and create your own poem. You can mirror your poem to one of the examples shown on the website if you like. Copy it before you go to your seat. 6. **Last, type** **the poem into your page and let me or Ms. Ciolfi know when you are done by writing a note and putting it in the "I'm Done" tray. If incomplete, keep working until it is done. Remember, if you have a computer, it can be done at home.** Poetry Question Chart Directions: Ask each other these questions after you read the poem below. Write each answer down on this worksheet and turn it in with your own created poem. 1. What is the title of the poem? 2. Who is the author of the poem? 3. Who is the speaker of the poem? 4. How many stanzas are in the poem? 5. Can you find any rhyming words? 6. Can you find any alliteration? 7. Can you find any personification? 8. Can you find any similes? 9. Can you find any hyperbole? 10. Can you find any metaphors? <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif'; font-size: 29px;">11. Can you find any onomatopoeia? <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif'; font-size: 29px;">12. Can you find any repetitions? <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif'; font-size: 29px;">13. How did this poem make you feel? <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif'; font-size: 29px;">14. What is this poem about? ** Rain ** <span style="color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Rain races, <span style="color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Ripping like wind. <span style="color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Its restless rage <span style="color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Rattles likeRocks <span style="color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">ripping through <span style="color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">The air. // By Jake //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 27px;">1. Go to the following website: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 27px;">2. **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 27px;"> Click the “simile” category. Read the definition and examples for that category. Make sure you click on **Back to Homepage** when done. Go on to the next literary element.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 27px;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 27px;">When done with each category take “The Final Test” by clicking on it.