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TEACHING POETRY

1. Seek out paraphrasable meaning


What is the poem about? (events, descriptions, emotions….)
2. Linguistic Features
Rhyme, deviance, polysemy, contrasts, word-chains, regularity in speech acts (informing,
questioning, commanding….
3. Personal Response
Finding objective reasons for subjective reactions (verification, argumentation)

Regularity & Patterns

CVC great/grow send/sit Alliteration


Same first
consonant
CVC great/fail send/bell Assonance
Same vowel in final
syllable
CVC great/meat send/hand Consonance
Same final
consonant in final
syllable
CVC great/gazed send/sell Reverse Rhyme
Combining
alliteration &
assonance
CVC great/goat send/sound Pararhyme
Combining
alliteration &
consonance
CVC great/bait send/end Rhyme
Combining
assonance &
consonance

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