How to Eat a Poem Analysis Guide
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- Poetry, Literature, English
- Topic
- Poetry, Analysis
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This resource is a How to Eat A Poem Poetry Analysis Guide.
This is a fun graphic for students to guide them through analysing poems.
You may choose to print and display these 3 pages across a display board.
You may print and distribute to students for closer reference.
You may even want students to recreate this as an anchor chart to reinforce the learning.
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Learning objectives
Identify literary devices such as metaphor, personification and hyperbole in a poem
Paraphrase a poem section by section
Use punctuation and word definitions to clarify a poem's meaning
Teaching tips
Have a dictionary or online definitions available, since one foundation step asks students to look up every unfamiliar word.
Skills covered
Poetry annotation — marking punctuation and unfamiliar words before rereading
Literary device identification — underlining examples of the devices listed in the reference table
Paraphrasing — dividing the poem into chunks and restating each one
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