When teaching poetry, it is often helpful to refresh or introduce students with technical words. Terms like “metaphor", "alliteration", "personification", "imagery", "apostrophe", and "assonance" are a few important terms.
After you have read the poem, ask your students to do a scavenger hunt using the storyboard creator. Give them the list again and have them create a storyboard that depicts and explains the use of each literary element in the poem. They will have an absolute blast and gain mastery of the words.
| DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE | |
|---|---|---|
| Personification | Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas | “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.” |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words in a sentence or line | “And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command” |
| Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound | “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,” |
| Imagery | The use of descriptive or figurative language to create vivid mental imagery that appeals to the senses | “Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.” |
| Apostrophe | A direct address to an absent person, concept, or inanimate object | “‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’” |
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Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that shows five examples of literary elements in "Ozymandias".