Free sonnet teaching resources covering sonnet structure, rhyme schemes, meter, Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets, analysis, examples, and writing activities.
A reference article by Gary R. Hess describing 55 poetry forms and styles, including acrostic, ballad, blank verse, cinquain, concrete, epic, free verse, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, limerick, narrative, ode, sonnet, sestina, tanka, terza rima, villanelle and visual poetry.
A free interdisciplinary lesson on Emma Lazarus's 'The New Colossus' using historical photography, repeated reading, vocabulary, evidence, immigration history, and poetry analysis.
Free high-school poetry lesson in which students analyze traditional sonnets, chart rhyme scheme and meter, identify shared characteristics, and write an original sonnet.
A creative-writing presentation introducing poetic expression, idea and emotion, poetry forms, line style, concise word choice, imagery, sensory language, rhyme, rhythm, free verse, and techniques for making poems vivid and personal.
A two-page University of Nevada, Las Vegas handout explaining accentual-syllabic and accentual verse, scansion symbols, common poetic feet, line lengths, iambic pentameter, anapestic tetrameter, ballad stanza, sonnets, and catalectic lines.
A poetry-analysis quiz using Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 and William Blake's The Lamb to assess rhyme scheme, meter, syllables, poetic form, personification, imagery, refrain, sonnet structure, theme and literary techniques.
Free printable poetry forms quiz with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
A detailed classroom presentation on meter, poetic feet, metrical line lengths, stanza forms, rhyme schemes, exact and near rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, and examples from well-known poems.
A classroom presentation covering poetic rhythm, cadence, meter, metrical feet, scansion, stanza lengths, rhyme schemes, rhyme types, sound patterns, and examples from Shakespeare, Blake, Poe, Lear, Longfellow, and others.
A classroom reference sheet defining core poetry vocabulary including rhyme, rhythm, meter, stanza forms, haiku, limerick, sonnet, free verse, figurative language, imagery, allusion, tone, onomatopoeia, and alliteration.
A comprehensive poetry unit test covering sound devices, meter, stanza, rhyme scheme, figurative language, imagery, poetic forms, haiku, sonnet, limerick, free verse, narrative poetry, and written examples.
A nine-page poetry assessment built around The West Wind and additional exercises on rhyme scheme, alliteration, imagery, figurative language, rhythm, poetic forms, sound devices, stanza types, and poetry terminology.
Free printable sonnet quiz & assessment with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
Project Gutenberg's collection of Rupert Brooke's poetry, based on the 1915 edition and including an introduction, biographical material, sonnets, lyric poems, and poems associated with Brooke's First World War reputation.
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