Year 7
Introduction to Poetry: What makes a poem, a poem?
Year 7
Introduction to Poetry: What makes a poem, a poem?
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will develop our understanding of poetic conventions. We will review figurative language before using the opening of 'I wander'd lonely as a cloud' as an example of poetic conventions.
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8 Questions
Q1.
What does a poem normally express?
Facts and statistics.
Q2.
What is the definition of figurative language?
Language that belongs to another culture.
Language that includes facts and statistics.
Language that we use all the time in our everyday speech.
Q3.
Which of these is the definition of metaphor?
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q4.
Which of these is the definition of simile?
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q5.
Which of these is the definition of personification?
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q6.
Which of these is the definition of onomatopoeia?
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Q7.
How long do we think poems have existed?
Fifteen hundred years.
Four hundred years.
Nine years.
Q8.
Which of these are forms (types) of poetry?
Leaflets, advertisements and posters.
Letters, speeches and newspaper articles.
7 Questions
Q1.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a figurative technique?
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
Q2.
Which of the following is an example of a simile?
'“Hope” is the thing with feathers'.
'A host of golden daffodils [...] Fluttering and dancing in the breeze'.
‘How they clang, and clash and roar!’
Q3.
Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?
'“Hope” is the thing with feathers'.
'A host of golden daffodils [...] Fluttering and dancing in the breeze'.
'I wander'd lonely as a cloud'.
Q4.
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
'A host of golden daffodils [...] Fluttering and dancing in the breeze'.
'I wander'd lonely as a cloud'.
‘How they clang, and clash and roar!’.
Q5.
Which of the following is an example of personification?
'“Hope” is the thing with feathers'.
'I wander'd lonely as a cloud'.
‘How they clang, and clash and roar!’.
Q6.
Which of these statements about poetry is false?
Poems are organised into patterns.
Poems can be very short or very long.
Poems use figurative language to create powerful pictures in the reader’s mind.
Q7.
Which of these statements about poetry is false?
Poems let us explore the minds of some amazing people.
Poems usually explore big ideas and emotions.
Poets use words carefully to create meaning.