Mrs. Zana’s Class

a place to read and write together

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