Transcript Text analysis “My heart leaps up”

Text analysis
“Nursery Rhyme”
Approaching Literary Genres p. 40
Millennium
• Nursery Rhyme
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Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
FOCUS ON THE MEANING
1. The story of this rhyme is simple. Can you re-phrase it in prose?
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Jack is a little boy. He must be very agile and quick if he doesn’t want to burn his
feet when he jumps over the candlestick.
FOCUS ON THE RHYME
2. Much of the poem’s charm lies in its musicality.
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Highlight in green the rhyming words.
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
FOCUS ON THE RHYME
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Highlight in yellow the repeated sounds.
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
Highlight in blue the repeated words
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
• Humpty Dumpty
anonymous
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
FOCUS ON THE MEANING
1. The story of this rhyme is simple. Can you re-phrase it in prose?
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Humpty Dumpty was sitting on a wall, then he fell down and nobody was able to
put him together again.
FOCUS ON THE RHYME
2. Divide the rhyming words according to the number of syllables (monosyllabic or
polysyllabic words.
• Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
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Monosyllabic words: wall / fall / men
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Polysyllabic words: a / gain
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FOCUS ON THE RHYME
Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
Is the poem made up of rhyming couplets?
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Yes, it is
4. Find more rhymes (at least two) for the underlined words.
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Fall : all / ball / call / overall;
men ten, pen then
• Jack Horner
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Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plumb,
And said, What a good boy am I!
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FOCUS ON THE RHYME
1. Who is Jack Horner?
• He is a boy and he’s eating a Christmas pie.
2. Little Jack Horner does something with his pie.
What is it?
• He puts his thumb into the pie and pulls out a
plum.
3. Is it something children are usually taught to
do?
• Of course it is not. Children are always taught
to eat using cutlery and not their fingers, as
they spontaneously do. Little Jack is being
naughty.
4. What is his own comment on his action?
• He says:”What a good boy am I” (l.6). He is
enjoying himself and making fun of adults.
FOCUS ON THE RHYME
5. Highlight in yellow one more example of rhyming words.
• Jack Horner
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Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plumb,
And said, What a good boy am I!
6. Is the poem only made up of rhyming couplets. Like Humpty Dumpy (text 4)?
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No, it isn’t.
7. Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem (for example poem 4 was aa bb)
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The rhyme scheme of the poem is aabccb.
8. Find more rhymes (at least two) for the words underlined.
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Corner: mourner / burner;
Pie: lie / die / dye / rye / try / buy;
Plum: sum / mum / bum