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Poetry Prose Drama
Poetry Prose Drama
and Drama
How do I distinguish among
poetry, prose, and drama?
Activator
What Is It?
–See if you can tell what each title
is… poetry, prose, or drama
–Record your answers on a blank
sheet of paper.
Activator
1. Varied in length
2. Written in lines and stanzas
3. Uses sound devices (rhyme,
alliteration, onomatopoeia,
etc…)
4. Takes poetic license with space,
punctuation, grammar, etc…
Text Features of Poetry
1. Shape Poems
2. Acrostic Poems
3. Ballads
4. Lyrical Poems
5. Haikus
6. Narrative Poems
7. Free Verse
8. Blank Verse
Let’s Review #1
Tell me three things that
you have learned about
poetry (write them down).
Prose’s Purpose
Prose is a form of writing that
is meant to:
1. inform
2. entertain
3. express
4. persuade
Text Features of Prose
1. Biography 9. Folktale
2. Autobiography
3. Essay
4. Novel
5. Short Story
6. Novella
7. Article
8. Fable / Folktale
Let’s Review #2
Tell me three things that
you have learned about
prose (write them down).
Drama’s Purpose
Drama is a form of writing
that is meant to:
1. express
2. entertain
Text Features of Drama
1. Play
2. Skit
3. Opera
4. Musical
5. Monologue
6. Readers’ Theater
Let’s Review #3
Tell me three things that
you have learned about
drama (write them down).
Summarizer, Part 1
Look back at our activator.
Now that you are more familiar
with poetry, prose, and drama, go
back and double-check if your first
answers are correct.
If they aren’t, fix them.
Summarizer, Part 2
Take out a blank sheet of notebook
paper.
Title it “Poetry, Prose, and Drama
Summarizer” and head it properly.
Follow the directions on the next
slide.
Summarizer, Part 2
We are doing a 3-2-1…
–3. Write three types of text (there
are only three)
–2. Write two features of each type
–1. Write one form of each type