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Reading Poetry

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Present your class with an overview of poetry-related information. The slides are clearly organized by topic, starting with reading poetry, ending with myths, and touching on everything from the five senses to open and closed forms of poetry. The vocabulary used in the slides is relatively high-level, as is most of the information.

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figures of speech, figurative language, idioms, allusions, literary devices, imagery, tone, poetry, symbolism

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poetry, imagery, figure of speech, tone, symbolism, allusion, poetry form, english language arts

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  • Slides cover imagery, figures of speech, tone, irony, closed-form and open-form poetry, symbolism, allusion, and myths
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  • The presentation covers too much information to absorb in one go; try splitting it up over the course of a unit

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