Mrs. Zana’s Class

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