A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN LITERARY DEVICES OF POETRY

FOR ENGLISH GRADE – 9

PREPARED BY: AILEEN M. DE TORRES

COOPERATING TEACHER: JOANNE RUBY E. TAN

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I. Learning Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
1. Identify the literary devices used in poetry (End rhyme, Internal rhyme,
Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Assonance and Conssonance.)
II. Learning Content:

Topic: Literary Devices of Poetry

Reference: Almonte, Liza R. (2020) The Voice. A journey through Anglo American Literature

Learner’s Material (2016) (p9– 13).

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Materials: PowerPoint presentation, and visual aids laptop

III. Learning Experiences

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity

A. PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES
1. Prayer
“Everyone please stands for the prayer.” stand
(S1 leads the prayer)
2. Greetings
“Good morning class!” “Good morning ma’am!”
3. Classroom conditioning
Okay class, before you take your seat please
Arrange your chairs, pick up some trashes and (comply)
throw it in the trash bin.

You may now take your seats. (take their seats)

5. Checking the attendance
Who is absent today? “None ma’am.”
Wow! That’s wonderful.
6. Collecting of assignments
Please pass forward your assignments silently (comply)
without standing.
7. Motivation
Now class, I want you to look at this image of a
famous painting “The Starry Night” painted by
Vincent Van Goghand tell me what can you say
about it.
 “The Starry Night”

What descriptions can you give to this painting?

It is night time ma’am because of the dark and

What else? warm colors used in the painting.

There is a moon along with the lights we can see

What more? on the sky that appears to be stars.

Great answers everyone! It is like a town in its dark hours.

Now, what can you interpret from this painting?

It’s like a representation of some time in our life

where we experience darkness which symbolizes
Excellent interpretation! the night time, but still, there’s always a light or
In painting, artists use brushes and colors to hope that will help us get through life challenges.
express ideas or emotions.

What other medium can we use in a way to

express our ourselves?
By writing ma’am.
What forms of writing can we be able to express
ourselves?
By writing a song, a novel, a short story or a
Very good answer! poem.
If an artist creates an art or painting, a singer
writes a song, a poet also writes a poem.

Now, what is a poem?

A poem is a piece of writing in which the words

are chosen for their beauty and sounds of words
Brilliant! are carefully arranged, often in short lines which
rhyme.
B. ACTIVITY
Now, I have here a poem “The
Seven Ages of Man” (from As You Like It) by
William Shakespeare. Listen to the poem intently
as I play its audio.
Read and observe as well the poem as I give you
the copy.

(The teacher distributes the copy of the poem

and play the audio)

Please start reading.

C. ANALYSIS (the students listen and read the poem)

What was the poem all about?

It’s all about the different stages of a man’s life

from infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, and
In which did the author compare the world to? old age.

The author compares the world with a stage and

Precisely! every living person is described as an actor, who
What have you observed in the poem based on plays seven different roles on that stage.
how the author express it?
The poem was written using flowery words to
Absolutely! describe a person, a feeling, emotion, or to
compare it to an object or something.
What do you call to the form of writing that uses
flowery words to describe or compare
something? It’s called figurative language.

Brilliant!
What else have you noticed in the poem based
on how the author writes it?
The poem uses words that sounds alike or
Very good! rhymes.

3. ABSTRACTION

Figurative language, and Rhymes are some of the

literary devices of a Poetry. Now, let us define the
terms.

(the teacher presents the definitions through

PowerPoint presentation and call random
students to read)
What is Poetry?

Poetry is literary work in which special intensity is

What do we mean by Literary devices? given to the expression of feelings and ideas by
the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems
collectively or as a genre of literature.

What are the literary devices used in Poetry? Literary devices are specific techniques that allow
a writer to convey a deeper meaning that goes
beyond what’s on the page.
Okay great job! Today class, we will discuss the
first four literary devices in poetry which are Rhymes, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Assonance,
(rhyme, onomatopoeia, alliteration and Consonance, Imagery, Simile, and Metaphor.
assonance.)

Now class, who among you know what is rhyme?

Great answer!
There are two types of Rhyme, what are those?
The ending sounds of words are repeated.

And the other one is?

End Rhymema’am.
Very good! Where can we find the ending rhyme
in the poem?
Internal rhyme ma’am.
Thank you!
End rhyme appears at the end of the lines and Ma’am the end rhyme appears at the end of the
internal lines can be found within meaning it can lines.
be in the center of the line.

Here are the examples:

“I think I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”

-see and tree is what kind of Rhyme?

That’s correct! See and tree are examples of end

rhyme. These two words has the same ending
sound. End rhyme ma’am.

Now class who can give an example of End

rhyme?
 “In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
Very good! Which is the end rhyme in that That mark our place; and in the sky
example? The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
What else?
Ma’am the words blow, and row from the first
That’s correct! and second lines.
Now if the End rhyme can be found at the end of
the lines, how about the Internal rhyme? Ma’am the words sky, and fly from the third and
fourth lines.
Great answer!
Internal Rhyme, appears within the line.
Here is the example:
“the crows in boughs throws endless brawls”

-boughs-throws-brawls is what kind of Rhyme?

Correct! So, internal rhyme can be found within

the line. Let’s have another example.
It’s Internal Rhyme ma’am
“Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble…”

Which words here are the internal rhyme?

Now, let’s proceed to Onomatopoeia. What do

you know about it? The words double, trouble, and bubble.

Very good!
Onomatopoeia– is a sound device used by poets It’s a literary device ma’am that suggest actions,
to suggest actions, movements, and meanings. movements and meanings.

So here are the examples.

Ex. The hissing of the snake made me shoo it

away.
Which word in the line expresses Onomatopoeia?

Exactly! Let’s have another example.

Dogs bark, ruff, woof, arf, and howl.
Cats meow, hiss, and purr. The word “hissing” ma’am

Which word in this line expressesOnomatopoeia?

Great answer!
Now what do we mean by Alliteration?
Very good! Ma’am, the sounds of the animals in the lines.
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning of the words.

For examples: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds.

[Link], dreaming dreams no mortal
enter dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe, from The Raven

Ex. PeterPiper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.

In the first example, which words in the line

express alliteration?

Great job! how about in the second example?

Excellent answer! Now class if the Alliteration is The words doubting, dreaming, dreams, and
the repetition of the consonant sounds, how dared.
about the Assonance?
All the words that start with letterP ma’am.
Great answer! Assonance is a repetition of vowel
sounds, whereas rhyme is a repetition of both It is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.
vowel and consonant sounds.

These are the examples.

Ex. Along the window sill, the lipstick stabs

glittered in their steel shells.
- Rita Dove, from Adolescence III
-
In this example which words do you think are the
assonance?

Why do you think so?

Let’s have another example.
Ex. Goodnight, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbug’s The words window, sill, and lipstick ma’am.
bite
Which vowel sounds has been repeated in this
line? The vowel sounds “I” were repeated in this line.

The vowel sounds “I” ma’am.

Okay so let’s proceed to the Consonance, what
do you know about Consonance?

Very good! Meaning Consonance is the repetition

of the consonant sounds like (d,p,c,g,) and more.
Typically, this repetition occurs at the end of the Ma’am Consonance is a pleasing sounding caused
words, but may also be found within a word or at by the repetition of consonant sounds within
the beginning. sentences, phrases, or in poems.

Here are the examples:

What this grim, ungainly,ghastly, gaunt, and
ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”
In this example, which words do you think are the
consonance?

Great answer! Okay do you have any question?

So, let’s have an activity now. The words that repeat the sounds of “g” ma’am.

4. APPLICATION
For your activity, I will group you into four. None ma’am.

This row will be group 1, row 2 will be group 2,

row 3 will be group 4 and the last row will be
group 4.
For group 1, your task is look for rhymes in the
poem “The Seven Ages of Man” by William
Shakespeare. Using this chart which I will give
you, all you have to do is to fill it out.

The teacher provides the chart.

Rhyming Words in The Seven Ages of Man.

End rhyme Internal rhyme

For group 2, your task is to look for

Onomatopoeia in the poem and list them here in
this chart which I will give you.

Onomatopoeia in The Seven Ages of Man

Sample What it The How it
 line/word looks like sound it moves
s makes

For group 3, Your task is to list down the

Alliteration, in the poem by using this chart.

From “The Seven Ages of Man” by William

Shakespeare
Alliteration
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

For the last group, your task is to look for some

Assonance that is used by the poet in the poem.

Use this chart that I prepared for you and fill it

out.
Assonance in “The Seven Ages of Man”
Assonance
1.
2.
3.
4
5.

Now remember everyone you only have 15

minutes to complete this activity. So, I will give
you 10 minutes to prepare and discuss. Another 5
minutes to present it in class.

Do you have any question?

Okay, you can start

 (after the activity)

Again class, what are the literary devices that we

discussed today? None ma’am!
Very good!
What’s the importance of using literary devices in Starts with their activity.
a poem?

Very well said! Literary devices indeed make a Rhymes, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, and
difference in writing not just in poem, but in any Assonance.
forms of writing.
Using literary devices make a poem more
interesting to read, they able us to use our
imagination and wander around different feelings
or emotions just by reading the words.

IV. EVALUATION

In a one-half sheet of paper, identify the literary devises used in the lines by choosing the answer inside
the box.

End rhyme Internal Rhyme

Onomatopoeia Alliteration
Assonance

______1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

______2. The sheep went, “Baa.”

______3. Lean, mean, fighting machine.

______4. The rustling leaves kept me awake.

______5. The sack fell into the river with a splash.

______6. I drove myself to the lake / and dove into the water.

______7. Motion of the ocean

______8. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

______9. At my school there is a golden rule. / Be who you are, and you're sure to go far.

______10.“Whose woods these are I think I know,

His house is in the village, though;

V. ASSIGNMENT

For your assignment, I want you to look for the meaning of other literary devices that we haven’t discuss
today and give examples. Write it in a one whole sheet of paper.

Consonance

Imagery

Simile

Metaphor