How to Read a Poem Anchor Chart
This is the metaphor used in helping to understand the how to Read a Poem Anchor Chart.
What is a car?
The flowers nodded in agreement with the breeze.
What is personification?
It was the name of the farm house where the slaves went to get their allowances for the month and the year.
What is the Great House Farm?
It is the time in the 24 hour period when Douglass would see his mother when a child.
What is night time?
Instead of saying “The dogs are mean,” the author says, “The dogs prowled, looking to attack.”
What is vivid word choice?
In the, "Pop the hood," step, you are to find the figurative language, emphasized words, repeated words, rhyme, rhythm, but do this important step...
What is highlight or underline words that pop out at you while reading.
BAM!
What is Onomatopoeia?
It was the only allowance that children received from The Great House Farm.
What are two shirts?
It was the name of Douglass's first master.
What is Captain Anthony?
It is defined as, "Placing two things that directly oppose each other (often abstract concepts) near each other or directly side- by-side so the reader can compare them."
What is juxtaposition?
It is the number of times you need to read the poem when analyzing it.
When he was nearly thirteen": from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird uses the long "e" sound in "nearly" and "thirteen".
What is assonance?
He kept from three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation [called Great House Farm], and owned a large number more on the neighboring farms belonging to him
Who is Colonel Lloyd?
"Like men, we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack (Claude McKay)," is an example of what poetic tool?
What is poetic inversion?
In, "Paint Job," it's the missing step: 1. Title 2.Speaker, and 3.Mood, 4. possible theme and 5._____________.
What is gist?
He's a couch potato.
What is a metaphor?
"He was rightly named: he was a cruel man. I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother’s release."
They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall- time. A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. Douglass is referring to what?
What is a slave's birthday.
Short lines can provide emphasis or give a choppy feel to the rhythm. On the other hand, long lines can heighten emotion.
What is line length?
In the, "Mean Machine," step, it's not only finding theme. It's also identifying this.
What is, "what poetic tools conveyed the theme?"
"Oh, stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me..." (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein) has two poetic devices.
What is apostrophe and personification?
It is what Douglass is referring to in, "...and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because “there is no flesh in his obdurate heart.”
What is the singing of the slaves?
It was Douglass's mother's name.
What is Harriet Bayley
It is, "Repetition of ending (of the word or stressed syllable) consonant sound."
What is Consonance?