When teaching poems, it is often helpful to refresh or introduce students with technical words. “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 | “He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.” |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words in a sentence or line | “The only other sound’s the sweep” |
| End Rhyme | Words at the end of a line that rhyme with words at the end of other lines. | “Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;” |
| Imagery | The use of descriptive or figurative language to create vivid mental imagery that appeals to the senses | “The woods are lovely, dark and deep,” |
| Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound | “And miles to go before I sleep.” |
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Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that shows five examples of poetic language in "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening".