9

English
Quarter 1–Module 6:
Identifying Types and Features of Poetry and
Composing Forms of Literary Writing

Development Team of the Module

Writer: Janet D. Consumo
Editor: Sharie L. Miguel, EdD
Reviewer: Sharie L. Miguel, EdD Cherrylene M. Mendoza
Illustrator: Janet D. Consumo
Layout Artist: Cherrylene M. Mendoza, Sharie L. Miguel

Management Team: Zenia G. Mostoles, EdD, CESO V. SDS

Leonardo C. Canlas, EdD, CESE, ASDS
Rowena T. Quiambao, CESE, ASDS
Celia R. Lacanlale, PhD SGOD Chief,
Arceli S. Lopez, PhD, SGOD Chief
June D. Cunanan, EPS-English
Ruby M. Jimenez, EPS-LRMDS

Published by the Department of Education, Schools Division of Pampanga

Office Address: High School Boulevard, Brgy. Lourdes, City of San Fernando, Pampanga
Telephone No: (045) 435-2728
E-mail Address: [email protected]
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the ENGLISH 9 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Identifying Types and
Features of Poetry and Composing Forms of Literary Artistry!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from public
institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set
by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in
schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent learning
activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the
needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that will
help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You also need
to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own learning.
Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks included
in the module.

For the Learner:

Welcome to the English 9 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Identifying Types and
Features of Poetry and Composing Forms of Literary Artistry!

The hand is one of the most symbolized part of the human body. It is often used to depict skill,
action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and accomplish. Hence, the hand
in this learning resource signifies that you as a learner is capable and empowered to successfully
achieve the relevant competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success
lies in your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and
independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process the contents of
the learning resource while being an active learner.

What I Need to Know

This module will assist you in encouraging the learners to open their doors to a
world of verbal artistry. Learners will surely have a knack for poetry storytelling. They can
share their personal experiences, feelings and emotions using English through poetry
writing.
 Please help the learners in sharing their ideas and knowledge from their
experiences so that there will be collaboration and learning will be easy.
Answers are written at the back of this module. Inculcate to the learners the value
of honesty and love for family and friends.

For the learner

We often hear the lines “Stay positive and look on the bright side.” Staying positive
makes us happier and could keep us healthy.
We could share some positivity by being nice and by practicing gratitude. We could
channel smiles, send flowers and write letters or poems.
Looking things on a bright side can change a person. You will be given activities
that you can answer on your own after reading and going through the different
parts of this module. Please remember not to make markings on this module and
write your answers on your notebook.

At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. identify common types of poetry;
2. understand major structural elements of poems; and
3. write a poem to share personal experiences, feelings, and emotions.

What I Know

Suppose you’re a poetry detective, identify the type of poem described in each rhyming
couplet. Write the correct answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. I tell a story, and I can be quite long.
I’m sometimes passed down through spoken word or song.
A. Ballad B. Sonnet C. Haiku

2. Seventeen syllables, three short lines.

Everyone’s got a theme, and nature is mine.
A. Free Verse B. Haiku C. Concrete Poem

3. I’m a rebel, baby, I have no rules.

No rhyme and meter, I keep my cool.
A. Free Verse B. Limerick C. Ballad

As a poetry detective, discover the rhyme scheme of the following poem excerpts. Write
the correct answer on a separate sheet of paper.

4. The way a crow

Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
-from “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost
5. The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at fifirst, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
-from “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Lesson

6 Identify Types and Features of Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature long before the existence of the written word. Its
use of rhyme, rhythm, and literary devices helped make memorizing of long verses
possible long before the advent of writing.

What’s In

Draw a happy face ( ) if the sentence tells something TRUE about poetry and
draw a sad face ( ) if otherwise. Write your answers on a separate sheet.

__________ 1. Poem is a collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or

emotions in a powerfully vivid and imaginative style.

__________ 2. Epic is a long and narrative poem that tells a story about a hero or an
adventure.

__________ 3. Stanzas are series of lines grouped together.

__________ 4. Rhyme is an element of poem. It is the repetition of similar sounds.

__________ 5. Alliteration is the repetition of vowel sounds on the same line.

Notes to the Teacher

The teacher must consider the prerequisite skills needed in the
development of this competency including the schema or background
knowledge which may reinforce learning. This module will help the
learners bridge the gap of learning to attain mastery of the lesson in its
spiral progression.
 What’s New

Look at the picture below. Give your description on how it appears to you.

Vick, Helga. Easy Colorful Painting Of Nature, Best Painting 2018. Pinterest

A painter can paint colorful images. Did you know that you can also paint without
the use of a paint or a brush? You can paint with your words just like poets. Poets are
also like artists because they can create images through words. The artworks of the
painters are called paintings, how about the written works of the poets?

What is It

Poetry is a form of an artistic expression. Artists paint on canvas using their paint
brushes while poets fill up pages using their words that kindle colorful images. Do you
want to create colorful images by writing a poem? Before you write your own poem, first
you need to know the different elements and common types of poetry.
Let us study the 8 Common Types of Poetry.

HAIKU SONNET
“Rainbow” “How Do I Love Thee?”
Curving up, then down Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Blending sun and rain Sonnet is a 14-line poem traditionally
written in iambic pentameter. It is
Haiku is a three-line stanza with a 5-7-5 sensationalized by William Shakespeare.
syllable count.
EPIC BALLAD

“The Illiad” and “The Odyssey” “Bridal Ballad” - Edgar Allan Poe

Epic is a long narrative poem that The ring is on my hand

normally tells a story about a hero or an And the wreath is on my brow
adventure. Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command
And I am happy now.
 Ballad is a type of poem that tells a story
and is sometimes set to music. The main
feature of a ballad is the repetition of
certain lines or even whole stanzas.
LIMERICK FREE VERSE POEM

What is limerick, Mother? “Come Slowly” -Emily Dickinson

It’s a form of verse, said Brother Come slowly, Eden
In which lines one and two Lips unused to thee.
Rhyme with five when its through Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
And three and four rhyme with each As a fainting bee,
other. Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums
Limerick is a five-line poem with a rhyme
scheme of AABBA. Lines 1, 2, and 5 Free verse is deliberately irregular, no
rhyme together, while lines 3 and 4 pattern, and with non-rhyming lines.
rhyme with each other. It is free of traditional rhyme, metrical,
and stanza patterns.
CALLIGRAM ACROSTIC POEM
No!
Not more rain C-Concentrate on new outcome
Splashing on the window
pane. In the main, I don’t complain.
H-Have vision on your goal
The fact remains, the drains contain so much A-Always be open to possibilities
Rain that they are strained. The weather N-Never let fear dictate you
vane’s G-Give your new direction
Become insane, when every day it rains again. E-Embrace the change as it unfolds
It’s plain
to Acrostic Poem or Name poem spells out
see
for
words with the first letter in each line. It
you describes someone or something.
and
me
end
of play

Calligram is also called Shape Poem. The

shape and layout of the letters and words
relate to the poem’s meaning.

Elements of Poetry
STANZAS FREE VERSE POEM
-these are series of lines grouped “Come Slowly” -Emily Dickinson
together. Come slowly, Eden
Here are some common types of Lips unused to thee.
stanzas: Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As a fainting bee,
Couplet - is a stanza of two lines. Reaching late his flower,
Tercet – is a stanza of three lines. Round her chamber hums

Quatrain –is a stanza of four lines. Free verse is deliberately irregular, no

Quintain – is a stanza of five lines. pattern, and with non-rhyming lines.

Sestet – is a stanza of six lines. Free verse is free of traditional rhyme,

metrical, and stanza patterns.
Octave – is a stanza of eight lines.
SOUND PATTERNS SOUND DEVICES
1. Rhymes -are repeated, similar
sounds. The different types of A good poem can often be identified by
Rhymes are: its sound quality. Poets use certain
devices to create sound within a poem.
a. End Rhyme - rhyme that occurs in
the last syllables of verses. 1. Alliteration - repetition of initial
sounds on the same line.
e.g. Whose woods these are I think I e.g. Snakes slithered swiftly south
know, His house is in the village
though 2. Assonance - repetition of vowel
sounds.
b. Internal Rhyme -a word inside a e.g. Fleet feet sweep by sleeping
line rhymes with another word on the geese.
same line.
3. Consonance - repetition of consonant
e.g. Once upon a midnight dreary, sounds.
while I pondered, weak and weary e.g. And all the air a solemn
(this is one line only) stillness holds
Rhyme Scheme is the regular pattern 4. Onomatopoeia - words that sound
of rhyming words in a poem like that which they describe.
e.g. Bid me to weep, and I will weep A e.g. Water water plops into pond
While I have eyes to see; B splish-splash downhill
And having none, and yet I will 5. Repetition - repeating the entire lines
keep A heart to weep for thee or phrases to emphasize thematic
The word weep rhymes with keep, ideas.
and the word see rhymes with e.g.
thee. So, the Rhyme Scheme is
A-B-A-B The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

FIGURATIVE DEVICES
-these are used to create rhythm, enhance poem’s meaning, or intensify mood or
feeling.

1. Simile – is comparing two things using like or as.

e.g. The road withered through the valley like a snake
2. Metaphor – is comparing two unlike things without the use of like or as.
e.g. Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly
3. Imagery – is using descriptive language to help the reader form a picture in
their mind.
e.g. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
 What’s More

Independent Activity 1

Identify the type of poem and encircle the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer
on a separate sheet of paper.
1. A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme is called ________.
A. Ballad C. Limerick
B. Epic D. Sonnet
2. What type of a poem does not follow a specific rhythm or rhyme scheme?
A. Sonnet C. Free verse
B. Acrostic D. Ballad
3. Which type of a poem is developed by the letters of a word or a name?
A. Acrostic C. Ballad
B. Limerick D. Epic
4. A long, narrative poem that tells a story about a hero is ______.
A. Concrete Poem C. Sonnet
B. Epic D. Haiku
5. What do you call a poem that has three lines and with seventeen syllables?
A. Epic C. Free verse
B. Haiku D. Limerick

Independent Assessment 1
Identify the type of poem that corresponds to the given stanza. Choose the correct
answer from the word bank. Do this activity on a separate sheet of paper.

Acrostic Calligram/Concrete Free verse Haiku Limerick

1. __________________ 3. ____________________
Clouds float slowly by E -earth is beautiful.
Fluffy, lumpy, cotton balls A -a lot of plants live here.
Silver, gray, and white R -recycling helps
T -tell a friend to clean up
H -help out
2. ___________________
“There was an Old Man with a beard, 4. ____________________
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared! Bring me all of your dreams,
Two owls and a hen, You dreamers,
Four larks and a wren, Bring me all of your heart melodies
Have all built their nests in my beard!’” That I may wrap them
-Edward Lear In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
-Langston Hughes
5. ___________________
Wanna be a a fish
Have a slick fish head. Spread
Fish jam on my fish bread. All’s good ‘round
My bowl today. Don’t like it? I’ll swim away. Bubbles
For my friends. Swim loops without end. Shiny treasure
Chest. A castle of my own. Plastic kelp fully grown.
If I was a fish, I’d be the best, not copper, not
Bronze, not silver. I would be
A gold Fish

Independent Activity 2

Can You Guess Who Am I? Match the description inside the talk balloon with the
correct literary device. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

I am a type of literature that uses the

I am a figurative device
sounds, rhythms, and meanings of
using descriptions that
words to describe the world in
appeal to the five
striking and imaginative ways.
senses.

I am two or more lines of

I tell repeated,
poetry that together form
similar sounds in a one of the divisions of a
line or in a stanza poem.Usually, I’m of the
same length and follow
same pattern and rhyme

I love to compare two things

using “like” or “as”

Independent Assessment 2

Match the literary terms in Column A with their definitions in Column B. Write the letter
of the correct answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Column A Column B
____1. Alliteration A. a word that sounds like the noise it describes
____2. Metaphor B. It repeats the beginning consonant sounds in
words
____3. Onomatopeia C. It compares two things without using “like” or “as”
____4. Stanza D. a five-line stanza
E. Series of lines grouped together to express an
____5. Cinquain
idea
Independent Activity 3
Read each poem below. Identify its type by choosing from the words inside box A. Next,
tell what element is used in the italicized line by choosing from the words inside box B.
Do this activity on a separate sheet.

Box A Box B

Types of Poetry Elements of Poetry

Haiku
Haiku Limerick Rhyme Repetition

Cinquain Alliteration

1. Summer has faded

Leaves falling, falling, falling
Autumn has begun

2. Spring
Green, growth
Budding, blooming, beaming
Shaking off winter’s chill
Rebirth

3. There once was a little green frog

Who lived in a wet, muddy bog
She leaped up one day
Said, “it’s time to play!”
And jumped on a train bound for Prague

Independent Assessment 3

Read the poem and answer the questions below. Write your answer on a separate
sheet of paper.

The West Wind

It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils.

It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine;
Apple orchards blossom there, and the air’s like wine.

There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest;
And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest…

__________ 1. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

A. aabbaacc C. aabbccdd
B. abababab D. abbcbccd
__________ 2. In the first line, what is the sound device used in the words “warm wind,
the west wind”?
A. onomatopoeia C. assonance
B. alliteration D. repetition

__________ 3. The poem is written in _____________.

A. couplets C. quatrains
B. stanzas D. Cinquains

__________ 4. What are the two things being compared in the sixth line?
A. Song-nest C. air-song
B. air-wine D. blossoms-air

__________ 5. What sound device is used in the words “my eyes”?

A. Onomatopoeia C. assonance
B. B. alliteration D. repetition

What I Have Learned

POET-TREE

Now that you have learned poetry by heart, you can now have your own Poet-
Tree! Grow your Poetry Tree big and wide by putting on the leaves the types of poems
and forms of poetry you learned. Help the branch to be strong by writing your favorite
poem on it. Your tree is waiting for you! Go and take care of it! Do this activity on a
separate sheet of paper.

MY PERSONAL POET-TREE
 What I Can Do

Now that you are familiar with the common types of poetry, write a Haiku with the
theme nature and a Limerick with the theme positivity or gratefulness. Do this activity
on a separate sheet of paper.

HAIKU LIMERICK
Theme: Nature Theme: Positivity/ Gratefulness
(5 syllable) 1st line -a
2nd line -a
(7 syllable)
3rd line -b
(5 syllable)
4th line -b
5th line -a

Assessment

Read the items and answer. Choose the correct answer by writing the letter of
your choice. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
_____1. Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be _________.
A. a single word C. sentence
B. part of a sentence D. All of the above

_____2. The following are characteristics of Free verse EXCEPT _________.

A. Stanzas C. rhyme or rhythm
B. Plot or conflict D. serious topic

_____3. “The sweet perfume of the rose filled the air”. What kind of figurative device is
used in the line?
A. Simile C. Imagery
B. B. Metaphor. D. Onomatopoeia

_____4. A humorous five-line poem with the rhyme scheme of AABBA is _________.
A. Sonnet C. Haiku
B. Limerick D. Ballad

_____5. What literary device is used in the line “Her heart pounded- a drum in his chest”?
A. Onomatopoeia C. Imagery
B. Simile D. Metaphor
 Additional Activities

The primary aim of this module is for you learners to appreciate the beauty,
rhyme, and style of a poem; to create love for English literature; and to develop
imagination in you.
Choose only one of the two activities below: Do this activity on a separate sheet
of paper.

A. Black Out Poetry B. Found Poem

1. Get an old newspaper. Cut out the 1. Gather stacks of old

article you chose. magazines, scissors, glue, and colorful
2. Find words that stand out to you. Try paper.
to notice patterns, and look for ideas that 2. Find powerful words in the
connect. pages of magazines, cut them out.
3. Using pencil, box/circle the words that 3. Arrange and rearrange the
you’re thinking of using. Create meaning words into meaningful poetry.
by stringing together separate words into 4. Glue your poem in a colorful
a complete idea/thought. piece of paper.
4. Finally, use heavy dark marks to box
your words and create art and poetry
from the pages of a newspaper.
 Answer Key

4.B 5.C
1.C 2.B 3.A 5. D
Individual Asessment 3 4. E
(Rhyme) 3. A
2. C
prague/ day, play
1. B
3. Limerick - frog,bug,
(Alliteration) Individual Asessment 2
blooming, beaming
growth/ budding, 5. Simile
2. Cinquain - green 4. Stanza
5. D 3. RhymeScheme
4. B falling (Repetition) 2. Imagery
3. C 1. Haiku - falling, falling, 1. Poetry
2. C
1. D Individual Act 3 Individual Act 2

Assessment What’s More What’s More

5. Free Verse
4. Acrostic
3. Concrete/Calligram
2. Limerick
1. Haiku
Individual Asessment 1

B 5.
B 4.
A 3. X 5. aabb 5.
C 2. :) 4. abab 4.
D 1. :) 3. A 3.
:) 2. B 2.
Individual Act 1 :) 1. A 1.

What’s More What's In What I Know

References:

“Interactive Poetry Activities YourStudents Will Love,” Read it. Write it. Learn it. Maximize Student Learning.Minimize
Teachers Stress, March 28, 2017, accessed June 2, 2020, https://www.readitwriteitlearnit.com/post/2017/03/28/high-
interest-poetry-activities.

“How To Teach Poetry to Secondary Students,” Literacy Ideas for Teachers and Students, accessed June 2, 2020,
https://www.literacyideas.com/poetry.

“Reading and Writing Types of Poetry,” Flocabulary by nearpod, Better Together, accessed June 3, 2020,
https://www.Flocabulary.com/lesson/types-of-poetry/.

“Elements of Poetry,” Education.com,Inc, a Division of IXL Learning, accessed June 3, 2020,

https://www.education.com/lessonplan/elements-of-poetry/.

“Poem,” LiteraryDevices.net.2013.accessed June 3, 2020.https://literarydevices.net/poem/#