Elements of Poetry
English 10, Session 6
Alliteration
• Go to
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poe
try/elements.html
• Read definition of alliteration
• Do alliteration exercises
• Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target
• We will read Annabel Lee (Edgar Allen Poe) and
The Tyger (William Blake)
• For a C: Identify and mark every place alliteration
occurs in both poems
• For a B: Identify and mark every place alliteration
occurs in both poems AND explain the impact
• For an A: Write an original poem or a response to
Annabel Lee or The Tyger that uses alliteration
Connotation and Denotation
• Go to
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poe
try/elements.html
• Read definitions of connotation and
denotation
• Do exercises
• Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target
• We will read In a station of the Metro (Ezra
Pound) and My Papa’s Waltz (Theodore Roethke)
• For a C: Complete the connotation and
denotation exercises for both poems
• For a B: Complete the connotation and
denotation exercises for both poems AND explain
the impact
• For an A: Write an original poem or a response to
My Papa’s Waltz that uses the same denotation
but a very different connotation
Diction
• Go to
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poe
try/elements.html
• Read definition of diction
• Do exercises
• Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target
• We will read Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilifred
Owen) and We Real Cool (Gwendolyn Brooks)
• For a C: Complete the diction exercises for
both poems
• For a B: Complete the diction exercises for
both poems AND explain the impact
• For an A: Rewrite Ex-Basketball Player with
more complex vocabulary or more unusual
syntax
Imagery
• Go to
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poe
try/elements.html
• Read definition of imagery
• Do exercises
• Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target
• We will read Chicago (Carl Sandburg) and
Photograph of my father in his twenty-second
year (Raymond Carver)
• For a C: Complete the imagery exercises for both
poems
• For a B: Complete the imagery exercises for both
poems AND explain the impact
• For an A: Write a poem that describes the literal
image of one of the images on the next slides
AND evokes a feeling (at least 8 lines)
An image of Chicago the year
Sandburg’s poem was published
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
The Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
Migrant Mother – Dorothea Lange
1968 Olympics – Tommie Smith and
John Carlos