Respond to All of the Questions with Complete Sentences

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Poetry Graphic Organizer “Annabel Lee”

Respond to all of the questions with complete sentences. Pre-Reading (1 point) Form (1 point) Rhyme Scheme (2 points) Poe once wrote, “The death of What is the form of the poem? Is it What is the rhyme scheme of the beautiful woman is, unquestionably, divided in to stanzas? Are there a poem? the most poetical topic in the world.” certain number of lines per stanza? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Is there any internal rhyme?

Figurative Language Imagery: Imagery is when the poet Sound Devices (1 point) (4 total points) appeals to one or more of your Are there any sound devices? List Can you find any example of senses. (5 points) the examples below and label them figurative language? List and Is there any imagery in the poem? according to type (i.e. alliteration, categorize the examples below. If What senses (sight, hearing, touch, onomatopoeia, repetition). Write there are none, write “none.” taste, or smell) does the imagery examples below. If there are none, appeal to? Write examples below. If write “none.” Metaphors (including extended metaphors): there is none, write “none.” A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike Alliteration: Repetition of an initial things that does not use a word of comparison. Sight: consonant sound:

Similes: A simile is a comparison of two Onomatopoeia: The use of words use unlike things using a word of comparison, Hearing: sounds express their meaning: usually “like” or “as.”

Personification: Personification is a giving Touch: Repetition: Repeating unusual words: an inanimate object humanlike characteristics.

Assonance: Repetition of an internal Hyperbole: Hyperbole is an extreme Taste: vowel sound: exaggeration.

Smell: Consonance: Repetition of an internal consonant sound: Meter: The pattern if stressed and Tone: Tone is the poet’s attitude Literal Meaning (1 point) unstressed syllables (4 points) toward the subject they are What is literally happening within the Is there are pattern to the meter of discussing. (1 point) poem? Do not dig too deep. What did this poem? What is the pattern? What is the tone of the poem? How you think the poem was about after Follow the steps below: can you tell? you read through it one time? How many syllables are in each line? If there seems to be a pattern to it, the poem probably has a meter.

Look at a two-syllable word. Which syllable of the word is stressed? Write your result below.

Figurative Meaning (1 point) Sketch out the pattern of stressed and Tone Shift (1 point) What is the underlying meaning of the unstressed syllables (the meter). Does the tone of the poem shift? If poem? After analyzing the poem, so, where and how does it shift? what do you now think the poem is about? What is the name of the meter?

Theme (2 points) Style (1 point) Extra Credit (1 point) What is the theme of the poem? Evaluate Poe’s poem, in particular his Draw an image that appeared in your Remember, the theme is the main style. How would you describe the mind while reading this poem. Label idea or author’s message. It is a style with which he writes? In other your drawing with text from the poem. perception about life or human nature words, what devices does he seem to that the writer shares with the reader. use the most? Look through this An effective way to find the theme is graphic organizer and see which to identify a subject that the poem poetic devices the poet uses the most deals with and then explain what the and which ones the poet does not author is saying about that subject. seem to use. Use this information to describe his style. Subject that the poem discusses in one word (life, death, faith, friendship)

Theme (what the author’s point is about this subject?)