Learning Objective : Today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry.

1. Learning Objective: Today we are going to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry. • Identify = point out • analyze = study the different parts of • characteristics = individual qualities

2. What are we going to identify and analyze today? The characteristics of poetry!

3. It is important to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry because it will allow you to better understand the genre of poetry and to know about the author’s purpose or message. What are other reasons it is important to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry? To understand that authors write poetry to entertain!

4. Have you heard of the Black Eyed Peas? Music is like Poetry. It too, tells a story.

5. I GottaFeelin by Black Eyed Peas I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good nightThat tonight’s gonna be a good nightThat tonight’s gonna be a good good night (x3)Tonight’s the night nightLet’s live it upI got my moneyLet’s spend it upGo out and smash itLike Oh My GodJump off that sofaLet’s get get OFFI know that we’ll have a ballIf we get downAnd go outAnd just loose it all …

6. Poetry Poetry is rhythmic or concentrated language that uses figures of speech and imagery. It is designed to appeal to your emotions and imagination. Here are some characteristics of poetry:

7. Characteristics of poetry

14. Characteristics of Poetry • What is rhyme? • What is simile? • What is metaphor? Words that have the same ending sound. A figure of speech in which things are compared using “like” or “as.” A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is the other

15. Characteristics of Poetry A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities. • What is personification? • What is alliteration? • What is onomatopoeia? Repetition of words with the same beginning sound. Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to.

16. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet. After tea she jumped in the sea And got her pants all wet. John Foster

17. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet. After tea she jumped in the sea And got her pants all wet. John Foster Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

18. A Rhyming Poem Rhyming words Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet. After tea she jumped in the sea And got her pants all wet. John Foster Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

19. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet. After tea she jumped in the sea And got her pants all wet. John Foster Rhyming words Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

20. A Rhyming Poem pattern Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet. After tea she jumped in the sea And got her pants all wet. John Foster A B A B Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

21. More Rhymes Spaghetti! Spaghetti Spaghetti! Spaghetti! You’re wonderful stuff, I love you, spaghetti, I can’t get enough. You’re covered with sauce And you’re sprinkled with cheese, Spaghetti! Spaghetti! Oh, give me some please. Jack Prelutsky

22. More Rhymes Spaghetti! Spaghetti Spaghetti! Spaghetti! You’re wonderful stuff, I love you, spaghetti, I can’t get enough. You’re covered with sauce And you’re sprinkled with cheese, Spaghetti! Spaghetti! Oh, give me some please. Jack Prelutsky Can you identify the rhyming pattern in this poem?

23. More Rhymes Spaghetti! Spaghetti Spaghetti! Spaghetti! You’re wonderful stuff, I love you, spaghetti, I can’t get enough. You’re covered with sauce And you’re sprinkled with cheese, Spaghetti! Spaghetti! Oh, give me some please. By Jack Prelutsky A B A B B C A C

24. What characteristic of poetry does this poem demonstrate? Alliteration Down the slippery slide they slid Sitting slightly sideways; Slipping swiftly see them skid On holidays and Fridays.

25. What characteristic of poetry does this poem demonstrate? A fly and a flea flew up in a flue. Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?” “Let’s fly,” said the flea. “Let’s flee,” said the fly. So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue. Alliteration

26. More Tongue Twisters “Night, night, Knight”, said one Knight to the other knight the other night. “Night, night, Knight.”

27. Can you identify the similes in this poem? A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes • What happens to a dream deferred? • Does it dry up  like a raisin in the sun?  3. Or fester like a sore--  And then run?  4. Does it stink like rotten meat?  Or crust and sugar over--  like a syrupy sweet? 5 Maybe it just sags  like a heavy load. 6. Or does it explode? What is your interpretation of each line? Lesson Idea: Before reading the poem, have students write a paragraph about a time they really wanted something and it was denied. After reading the poem, instruct students to rewrite the paragraph using similes

28. Can you identify the metaphors in this poem? Tranquility Time slides a gentle ocean waves upon waves, washing the shore, loving the shore. How does the poem make you feel? How do the metaphors support your feeling?

29. Why is it important to identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry? To be able to understand an author’s purpose or message.

30. Independent practice