Reading 3.4
Standard: Define how tone or meaning is conveyed in poetry through word choice, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, punctuation, rhythm, repetition, and rhyme.
Kid Friendly: Show what a poem means or what its feeling is by looking at all of a poet’s tools.
Unwrapped: Analyze poetry
1. tone – the feeling of a poem; is it sad, happy, scary, etc.?
2. meaning – what a poem means
3. conveyed – showed
4. word choice – which words an author uses
5. figurative language – metaphors, similes, personification, etc.
6. sentence structure – how the parts in a sentence are arranged. e.g. Does it start with the subject? Is it a complete thought?
7. line length – how long a line of poetry is
8. punctuation – commas, periods, semi colons, or colons
9. rhythm – the beat of a poem
10. repetition – repeating words in a poem, usually in order to emphasize them
11. rhyme – when the sounds at the end of a line of poetry are the same
