CHOOSE A WELL-KNOWN POEM OR SONG LYRICS. (It cannot be something written by you or a friend.) Do not use a Haiku or Tanka, as they are too short. Make sure your selection allows you to find the information needed for your presentation.

1. CHOOSE A WELL-KNOWN POEM OR SONG LYRICS. (It cannot be something written by you or a friend.) Do not use a Haiku or Tanka, as they are too short. Make sure your selection allows you to find the information needed for your presentation.
2. CREATE 13 SLIDES OR 13 SEPARATE PAGES OF A WORD DOCUMENT
3. EACH SLIDE/PAGE NEEDS TO HAVE A BACKGROUND AND/OR PICTURE THAT MATCHES THE CONTENT. (Do not use the same background or picture for all slides/pages.) 
4. THE ITEMS THAT NEED TO BE ON EACH SLIDE/PAGE ARE LISTED BELOW. (FULL EXPLANATIONS ARE IN THE POETRY WORKSHOP.)

You may choose any multimedia presentation tool you would like.  Here are some possibilities:

YouTube has videos that explain how to do these presentations. (If you are unable to access these apps, you may do a Word document that follows all the rules listed for the presentation below.)

POETRY PROJECT WORKSHOP

Forms of Poetry:

Narrative – poem that tells a story

Epic Poem – long, narrative poem about heroic deeds

Ballad – a song with a plot oftentimes about love

Lyric – no plot; rather just the speaker’s feelings on a topic

Ode – commemorative in nature; a poem often written to something or someone ex. Ode to a Grecian Urn

Elegy – somber toned poem, lament for the dead

Sonnet – very specific formed poem that has 14 lines and focuses on a central idea

Types of Sound Devices:

Alliteration – repetition of consonant letter at the beginning of adjacent or nearby words. (Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.)

Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds within adjacent or nearby words.

(Example: So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.

Consonance – repetition of consonant sound with adjacent or nearby words.

Example: Pitter and patter/chuckle, fickle, kick)

Rhyme – Rhyming words have a different beginnings, but the same middle and ending sounds.

(Examples: dreary/wearly, rapping, tapping, song/wrong)

Types of Figurative Language:

Metaphor – comparison between two unrelated items that share common characteristics.

(Example: Love is a rose.)

Simile – comparison between two different things using “like” or “as”

(Example: Her kisses are like wine.  She is as innocent as an angel)

Personification – giving an idea, thing, or animal, human characteristics

(Example: The sun smiled down on us.)

Sensory details – details that reflect the 5 senses – visual, auditory, oral, touch, smell)

Examples:

Sight. Blurry, dim.

Sound. Cheer, shriek

Touch: bumpy, chilly

Taste: bitter, delicious

Smell: foul-smelling, fragrant

Hyperbole – Exaggeration for effect

(Example: He was 10 feet tall. Her smile was a mile wide.)

NOTE THAT FOR VISUAL APPEAL, YOU MUST INCLUDE SEVERAL PICTURES THAT REFLECT THE THEME OF THE POEM. (These can be used as backgrounds for your slides or video, or can be put elsewhere in the presentation.)

CITATIONS

In-text Citations

For poems/songs, use the author’s last name and the line number of the poem. You may also use the year it was written for songs.

Here’s an example of an in-text citation:

(Frost 7).

If you used more than one line of a poem, you can reference the lines like this: (Frost 7-8).

Quote example with in-text citation:

““So dawn goes down to day” (Frost 7).

OR

“So dawn goes down to day / Nothing gold can stay” (Frost 7-8).

The slash represents a line break in a poem. You can use the slash in between multiple lines.

Works Cited Page

Click here to see a sample Works Cited page.

You can use Easy Bib or MLA Citation Machine to easily enter the poem’s information and create a citation for your Works Cited page. This is great information for any English assignment!

Need further assistance on how to cite? View this video: How to Create Works Cited Page

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