Power Point Presentation

Please do powerpoint to do this. About 8-10 slides.

Poem: “pretty ugly” by Abdullah Shoaib

To explain the poem, follow the steps detailed in the “How to Read a Poem” PowerPoint. You

may need to do more research to look up allusions, setting, and /or anything else that you do not

understand about the poem. You may also use criticism on the poem to help you with your

presentation. Some biographical information on the poet may be helpful, too. It is a good idea to

have visual aids when explaining a poem, such as an outline, PowerPoint, or Prezi. The

presentation is required and is graded just as the essays are: a grade based on a rubric.

You need to list the sources used, including your poem, on one-page Works Consulted, and this

page should be in correct MLA format, which is the same for the works consulted page as the

works cited page. You will turn in this source list ONLY, any time within two weeks of your

presentation, and this is required and graded just as the essays are.

Students will fill out evaluations on their peers’ presentations and upload them to the link

provided under the Poetry Presentations tab. Students are required to fill out ten (10) the

evaluation sheets fully. Sources may include other formal analysis you found on the poem,

biographical information on the authors, dictionary definitions of unfamiliar words, or other

references needed to help clarify words, names, historical places, times, events. For example, if

your poem refers to a battle during the Vietnam War, you could research that battle to help

explain the allusion in the poem to the class.

Do be clear about pointing out what you believe to be the theme of the poem. Then support your

analysis by pointing out the relevant poetical devices that lead you to that conclusion

You need at least three different elements of poetry to support your thesis of the poem’s theme in

this paper. Some elements of poetry include the following:

personae (speaker of the poem), character, setting, and / or action

symbols

—cultural, universal, contextual

allusions

diction, syntax, denotation, and / or connotation

.

imagery

--visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinesthetic, kinetic.

figures of speech--

(metaphor, simile, paradox, anaphora, personification, synecdoche,

metonymy, synesthesia, hyperbole, understatement, apostrophe).

Tone and / or irony—

situational, dramatic, cosmic, & verbal.

rhythm, rhyme scheme, meter

poetic forms—

sonnet, villanelle, ode, ballad

poetic structures

--stanza, couplet, tercet, triplet, quatrain