Reading Strategies
Three times.
What is the number of times you should read a poem?
Title and genre.
What are the first two boxes we fill out on a poetic annotation chart?
Sensory language.
What is language that appelas to one of the five senses?
Simile.
What is comparing two things using like or as?
Identifying the tone and mood.
What are you doing for the first time you read through a poem?
What is the second box we fill out on a poetic annotation chart?
Repetition.
What are repeated words, stanzas, lines, or phrases?
Metaphor.
What is comparing two things without using like or as?
Deciphering the meaning.
What are you doing the second time you read through a poem?
Paraphrasing and "The speaker says..."
What is the third box we fill out on a poetic annotation chart and what sentence stem should we use?
What is using a concrete image to represent something abstract?
Personification.
What is giving human-like qualities to something non-human?
Analyzing the poetic craft moves.
What are you doing the third time your read through a poem?
Craft Moves and "The poet uses ___ on line ___ in order to..."
What is the fourth box we fill out on a poetic annotation chart and what sentence stem should we use?
Figurative language.
Hyperbole.
What is intentional exaggeration for emphasis?
"The poet uses ___ on line ___ in order to..."
What is the sentence stem we use to analyze poetry?
Theme and "People should..."
What is the final box we complete on a poetic annotation chart and what sentence stem should we use?
Isolation or line length.
What is intentionally shortening or lengthening a line of poetry?
Onomatopoeia.
What is a word that sounds like what it describes?