1. 8 RL05
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

2. What are different kinds of texts?
Poetry
Prose—short stories, essays, novels
Drama
Informational--articles

3. What structures are typical in poetry?
Syllabication—syllables per line
Rhyme scheme—internal/end
Repetition
Figurative language
Connotative words

4. Syllabication in Haikus
Green and speckled legs, Hop on logs and lily pads Splash in cool water.
Line 1:
Line 2:
Line 3:

5. 2. What effect does the internal rhyme have on the text?
1. Highlight the internal rhyme in the line below
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary - Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven).
2. What effect does the internal rhyme have on the text?

6. End Rhyme 1. Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem shown
2. What is the effect of end rhyme in this poem?
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below.”

7. Repetition
Repetition is used to emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and/or develop a sense of urgency.

8. Highlight words or phrases that are repeated
Example
Highlight words or phrases that are repeated
What is the effect of repetition here?

9. “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster… Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.”

10. Figurative Language
1. Highlight the figurative language in the poem
2. what effect does it have on the meaning of the text?

11. Green and speckled legs, Hop on logs and lily pads Splash in cool water.

12. Connotative words something suggested by a word
Sketch by Carl Sandburg Highlight connotative words
The shadows of the ships Explain their effect
Rock on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Of the tardy and soft inrolling tide

13. What structures are typical in prose and Drama?
Flashbacks--a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story
Imagery (figurative language)
Dialogue
irony

14. What structures are typical in informational text?
Text (organizational) structures— cause and effect, chronological, description, etc.
Formal or technical diction

15. Practice What is the overall structure(s) for the following texts?
1. Passage One Okefenokee Swamp
2. Passage Two Okefenokee Swamp
3. Mrs. Flowers
 4. Tell Tale Heart
5. The Ranson of Red Chief
6. The Monkey’s Paw