This week, poetry was the main theme of our learning as we looked as various acronyms that could help us remember the key elements when it came to analyzing poetry. A few examples were given and we had to discuss the usefulness of these acronyms, as a group we all agreed that each acronym had its strengths and weaknesses and using this we had to create our own acronym which in the end, we decided it would be called MOTELRAPS which stands for:
Meaning
Organization
Tone
Evidence
Language
Rhyme
Audience
Purpose
Structure
But the acronym wasn't complete yet as we had to further add questions to each of the key elements to provoke analyzation instead of feature spotting. Each group decided that they would come up with various questions that would help us to provoke analyzation. We also had to create a portable version of the acronym so that we could analyze anywhere at anytime. I feel that the exercise and the acronym proved very useful to help me structure ideas and my writing when I analyze poetry, it also gives me a key insight of what to spot when reading a poem so that it can be interpreted correctly.
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