Synopsis
Using three short poetry anthologies, this study guide examines more than 40 well-known English-language poems, introducing the student to techniques such as rhyme and meter and various poetic forms such as the sonnet, the villanelle, the ballad, and more.
All poems in this study guide may be found in the three Dover Editions, Great Short Poems, 100 Best-Loved Poems, and 101 Great American Poems.
Through this guide's intense look at poetry's form and elements, students will learn:
Three types of Poetry: Narrative poems, lyric poems, dramatic poems.
Elements of Poetry: Lines, stanzas, words, impressions, sounds, rhyme, slant rhyme, sibilant, common meter, poetic foot, iambic tetrameter, iambic trimeter, imagery, analogy, tone.
Forms of Poetry: Petrarchan or Italian sonnet, Shakespearean or English sonnet, octave, sestet, couplet, villanelle, blank verse, haiku, ballad, limerick, terza rima, tercet, parody, Petrarchan conceits, free verse.
Literary Techniques: Enjambment, denotation, connotation, diction, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, theme, poetic license, simile, metaphor, personification, paraphrasing, allusion, explication, narrative, quatrains.
Moral Lessons and Character Values: Decision making and prayer, loving God means we must love our neighbor, inner beauty, materialism, use our time wisely, the Trinity, hypocrisy, grace in weakness, death, peace, serve one another, contentment, authority, and hope.
Activities and Writing Assignments: Research Elihu Burritt. Writing activities include connotations, couplets, senses, feelings, haiku, limerick, parody, sonnet, villanelle, ballad, terza rima, free verse. Paraphrase a poem and then write an explication of the same poem.
Suggestions for Further Reading: We include an in-depth reading list of more poetry by the same poet(s) and other reading that ties in with, or is similar.
All of the unit lessons are written from a Christian worldview!
- Large 8.5x11 printed workbook format is convenient to read and easy on the eyes
- Every question has plenty of whitespace for student's answers
- Encourages neat and clean handwriting practice
- Easily transports without the need for a laptop or other expensive equipment
- Provides a permanent record of the student's work
- Convenient, removable answer key included for the teacher!
- Study guides do not contain the text of the story, play, poems, or book.
- Recommended for grades 8-12
- Genre: Poetry
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