Identify sound patterns (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme), figurative language (e.g., metaphor, simile), and other conventions of verse (e.g., limerick, lyric, narrative, haiku) in poetry and explain how these contribute to the poem?s meaning and to the poem?s effect. 0701.8.13

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1. Analyzing Poetry - To analyze a poem, you must break it down into all its important elements and explain how they work together to create an effect or reinforce a meaning.
2. Analyzing Poetry Tips - The elements of analyzing poetry listed at this site will help you identify the meaning through its parts and give a sense of interpreting a poem.
3. Analyzing a Poem Using 20 Questions -
4. Bud, Not Buddy - quizzes on similes & metaphors Matching | Flashcards | Concentration
5. Do you know your metaphors? - drag words to make a metaphor
6. English Poetic Devices - Trivia Questions Quiz - Online quiz. If select wrong answer, detailed explanation and examples given to reinforce answer.
7. Elements of Poetry - Lesson Plans & Teaching Materials
8. How to Analyze a Poem in 6 Steps - Get the most out of poetry with these six practical steps.
9. Figurative Language Quiz - alliteration, similes and metaphors, personification, connotation and imagery
10. Literary Devices Quizzes - similes, metaphors, personification, slang/dialect and allusions - Matching | Concentration | Flashcards
11. Metaphor Battleship Quiz - Quia quiz using the Battleship game format
12. Metaphor Quiz - a five-question quiz at Quia
13. Metaphor Quiz - a ten-question quiz at Quia
14. Metaphor Quiz - to print
15. Poetry Analysis Quiz Review - Online quiz; Quizlet
16. Poetry Practice Test Quiz - Online quiz.
17. Simile lesson - includes a printable quiz
18. Symbolism — Writing Beyond the Obvious - Poetry is a magic trick — a way to say one thing and mean something much deeper.
19. Similes and Metaphors - identify the comparison in each sentence as a simile or a metaphor [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
20. Test Your Knowledge About Elements Of Poetry - Online quiz along with lesson, study guide and mind map.