English 6

English – Grade 6
Quarter 1 – Module 8: Elements of Poem
Edition, 2020

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 English 6
Quarter 1
Self-Learning Module 8
Elements of Poem
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 6 Self-Learning Module on Elements of Poem.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and

independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims
to help learners acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the English 6 Self-Learning Module on Elements of Poem.

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used to depict skill, action, and purpose. Through our hands, we may learn, create,
and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an
active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the

lesson at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from

the entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

This is your self-instructional learner module in English 6. All the

activities provided in this lesson will help you learn and understand:
Elements of Poem.

PRETEST

Directions: Tell whether the statement is true or false. Write the answer on
the space before the number.

1. A poem usually has words that rhyme.

2. Figurative expressions are commonly used in writing poems.
3. A poem uses descriptive words to make ideas very clear to one’s
senses.
4. A poem uses rhymes to make it sound musical.
5. Sound devices like alliteration and onomatopoeia are also used in
making poems.

RECAP

We have learned that poems are pieces of writing made in separate

lines. So aside from the sound devices and figurative language, elements like
rhyme and imagery add beauty and creativity to a poem.
 LESSON

A poem uses different kinds of elements in conveying its meaning and

in making it very appealing to the readers. It also helps us understand
better the purpose of the author’s written artwork.

Today, let us talk about analyzing a poem in terms of its elements like
rhymes, sound devices, imagery, and figurative language. Let us read the
poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Then let’s talk about every element
that characterizes a poem.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils)

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
The waves beside the danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

Continuous as the starts that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Rhyme is a popular literary device in which the repetition of the same

or similar sound occurs. Usually, it can be found at the end of the lines or
songs.
The rhyme pattern in the first stanza is ABABCC. Can you tell which
words rhyme?
 I wandered lonely as a cloud (A)
That floats on high o’er vales and hills, (B)
When all at once I saw a crowd, (A)
A host of golden daffodils; (B)
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, (C)
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze (C)
cloud-crowd, hills-daffodils, trees-breeze

Guided Practice
Let’s do the remaining stanzas. Pick out the rhyming words in the poem.
Identify the rhyme pattern.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The rhyme pattern is ABABCC, and the words that rhyme are shine-
line, way-bay, and glance-dance.

Sound devices are special tools the poet can use to create certain effects in
the poem to convey and reinforce meaning through words.

Personification is when an object, animal, or idea is given with a human

character. When we say, “The heavens heard the cry of the people”, we think
of heaven as a person who can hear.
Here are some examples of personification taken from the poem.
They stretched in never-ending line.

Human characteristics Phrase that describe the daffodils

Stretching stretched in never-ending line

Let’s do these together. Can you recognize the sound device

(personification) found in the poem, “I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud”
(Daffodils)?
 Human characteristics Phrase that describe the daffodils
Dancing fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Tossing their heads tossing their heads in sprightly dance

Imagery uses a vivid descriptive word to appeal to the senses of the

readers and for them to visualize a picture of what the author is describing.
Example:
“I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats o’er vales and hills”.

If you see or imagine a cloud floating over valleys and hills you have
successfully formed imagery based on the line.

Now, underline the words that made you “see” what was described in the
following lines.
What feeling do they evoke you?
The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead –
There were no birds to fly.
(from The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll)

Figurative language is a figure of speech that uses words in a sense

different from their literal definition. They are simile, metaphor,
personification, and hyperbole.
Examples:

a. Simile – a comparison between unlike things that have one quality in

common on which the comparison is based. It uses words like and
as.
The ship is like a plough plowing the sea.
My love is as red as a red, red rose.
 b. Metaphor – comparison between things essentially different but
having one quality in common on which the comparison is built. The
words like and as are NOT used.

Contentment is a pearl of great price.

c. Personification – ascribes intelligence of feeling to abstract ideas or

inanimate objects.

Did you hear the bells laugh and sing?

d. Hyperbole – exaggeration is made to achieve an effect.

Rhoda is a mountain of flesh.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Read the following sentences. For each sentence write O if the sentence uses
ordinary language and F if it uses figurative language.

1. _____ The wind blew hard and made noises.

2. _____ The dawn of the day is like the beginning of a play.

3. _____ The grass felt like velvet when she put her head down.

4. _____ He is selfish and greedy.

5. _____ The ice cube froze my spine.

Activity 2
Encircle the rhymes in these selected lines from poems.

1. Our God is a strong foundation; a never-ending source of inspiration

2. He shepherds me dearly; like a friend so warmly
3. He is my guiding light; on a dark, weary night
4. Angel of God my guardian dear, to whom His light commits me here.
5. You light my way when I am lost; You’re always there when I need You
the most

WRAP-UP

To wrap everything up that we have talked about in this lesson, let us

always remember that:

Rhyme is a literary device in which the repetition of the same or

similar sound happens.
Personification is when an object, animal, or idea is given a human
character.
Imagery is the use of vivid descriptive words to appeal to the senses of
the readers to help them visualize what the author is describing.
Figurative Language is a figure of speech that uses a word or phrase
that has other meanings than its normal definition.

VALUING

Appreciating God’s love for the wonderful creation of mankind. Taking

care of His amazing works shows value and love for GOD.
 POSTTEST

Directions: Read the following sentences. For each sentence write O if the
sentence uses ordinary language and F if it uses figurative language.

1. _____ The wind howled like a wounded animal

A. figurative language B. ordinary language C. both a and b

2. _____ When the night ends and daylight begins, people become active
again.
A. figurative language B. ordinary language C. both a and b

3. _____ The grass formed a velvet cushion for her head.

A. figurative language B. ordinary language C. both a and b

4. _____ He seeks money like a squirrel seeks nuts.

A. figurative language B. ordinary language C. both a and b

5. _____ When I held the ice, I felt shivers down my spine.

A. figurative language B. ordinary language C. both a and b
 KEY TO CORRECTION

5. lost-most
F 5.
4. dear-here O 4.
5. O 5. T
3. light-night F 3.
4. F 4. T
2. dearly-warmly F 2.
3. F 3. T
1. foundation-inspiration O 1.
2. O 2. T
2 1
1. F 1. T
Posttest Activity Pretest

References
Denn Marc P. Alayon, Activity Sheet in English 6 (Q1W2D3), pp.1-13

Garcia-Eusebio, Zotomayor, and Rebecca de Lemos-Mendoza. Essential English 6:

Teacher’s Resource Manual, 2017 edition. pp.6-10

Garcia-Eusebio, Zotomayor, and Rebecca de Lemos-Mendoza. Essential English 6:

Worktext in Language and Reading, 2017 edition. pp.12-15

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