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Inventing Metaphors to Understand the Genre of Poetry

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To make personally meaningful connections with poetry as a genre, students in the author's seventh grade classes generated original metaphors to describe the essence of poetry.

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  • Keyword: Poetry
  • Keyword: poetry immersion
  • Keyword: poetry metaphors
  • Keyword: teaching poetry to elementary students

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Whitin, P., (2000) “Inventing Metaphors to Understand the Genre of Poetry”, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7290/jaepl6zyhj

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