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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.

Poets use different techniques to emphasize, combine, or isolate certain details and/or ideas within a poem. Students should be familiar enough with poetry characteristics, such as rhyme scheme, meter, and graphical elements, to examine their use and effects in poems. Students should know that poets establish a rhythm or flow, which can help the reader understand where the poet means to stress or subordinate parts of the poem. For example, the punctuation in a poem can create natural pauses or full stops while the capitalization of words at the beginning of a line can help create the sense of a new idea (similar to how sentences in prose begin with a capital letter) even when punctuation is not present. Students should recognize that poets can and often do take poetic license with conventions and rules that are more rigid in prose writing.
the shape of a poem that includes capital letters, line length, and word position
the basic rhythmic structure in verse composed of the number of stressed and unstressed syllables per line
the pattern of rhyming lines (e.g., ABAB, ABBA)