4 MAY 2015

BELL ACTIVITY: WRITE YOUR FIRST NAME OR INITIALS AT THE TOP OF THE POST NOTE ON YOUR DESK.

BROWSE THROUGH THE BROWN POETRY ANTHOLOGY ON YOUR DESK UNTIL I ASK YOU TO STOP. IF THERE IS A 3X5 CARD IN THE ANTHOLOGY LISTING POEMS FROM LAST YEAR, CHECK THOSE OUT POEMS OUT FIRST.

RECORD THE TITLE AND PAGE NUMBER OF THE POEMS YOU LIKE ON YOUR POST IT NOTE.

TODAY’S AGENDA:

USING POETIC DEVICES IN WRITING

JOURNALS DUE WEDNESDAY: 12 ENTRIESFeb 4, 5, 11, 17; March 3, 18, 30;

April 14, 27, 30; May 5, 6

NOTES……IT IS A CORNELL DAY!!

Write your name and date on a blank sheet of paper.

Title across the top: POETIC DEVICES

Create 2 vertical columns: one for notes and one for your own comments, questions and original examples.

POETIC DEVICES Which allow us to paint with words.

ImageryImagery is language written to appeal to one or

more of the five senses; to describe how a subject looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells.

Figurative LanguageLanguage that is not meant to be

taken literally.

Figurative language is created using one of the following 5 poetic devices:

hyperbole personificationsimilemetaphor symbolism

The moon in the sky chuckled when the March Hare, who was not the sharpest crayon in the box, figured out why a raven is like a writing desk and exploded with excitement like a British Christmas cracker.

HyperboleExtreme exaggeration that is

obvious & intentional.

Examples:

There are a million people in here!

I could sleep for a year!

I have a ton of homework tonight!

One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

Personificationgiving a nonhuman object or being,

human qualities or characteristics.

EX: The storm clouds cried sharp, penetrating tears, piercing the earth’s tender heart.

One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

Simile

• An indirect comparison of two seemingly different things using the words like or as.

Her smile was bright like the sun!

The peach was as delicious as a kiss.

My dog is as mean as a snake.

One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

Metaphor

• A direct comparison of two seemingly different things WITHOUT using “as or like”

• His face is a puzzle to me, I can never figure out what he is thinking.

One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

Symbolism

= luck

= America

=Peace

When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.

COLORS ARE USED TO SYMBOLIZE CONCEPTS IN

LITERATURE

WHITE = PURITY, INNOCENCE or DEATHGREEN = LIFE, REBIRTH or MAGICBLACK = EVIL or DEATHRED = LOVE, PASSION or BLOOD (DYING)

Simile or Metaphor????• The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the

cans on the grocery store shelves.

• As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!“

• The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran after Jack.

• The pillow was a cloud upon which I floated after a long day.

figurative language

Simile or Metaphor????• I feel like a bicycle tube after a ride through a field of goat

heads.

• The twin was a mirror reflection of his brother.

• She was a single daisy in a field of crab grass.

• The bar of soap was like a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.

• Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.

figurative language

classic examples of PERSONIFICATION

• A smiling moon

• Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie

• My computer hates me, but the camera loves me.

• Opportunity knocked at the door.

• Winter tucked the city in that night under a snowy white

blanket.

• Trees danced in the wind.

• The stream murmured softly as it rushed downhill.

One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

STOP AND CHECK

NOTE QUIZ

POETIC DEVICES Which allow us to create the

music with words

AlliterationAlliteration is the repetition of the initial sound (consonant or vowel) of two different words.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

ALLITERATION MEMORY TIP

ALLITERATION

A IS THE FIRST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET.

ALLITERATIONSTARTS WITH AN A

AND SOUNDS LIKE LETTER IN THE MIDDLE.

A - LETTER - ATION

To Demonstrate…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tM417Thsng

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Wow! That’s a lot of V’s!"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Alliteration Examples

• down in the dumps

• do or die

• right as rain

• sink or swim

• pay the price

• back to the basics

• green as grass

ASSONANCEHe received three emails today.

 The sailor said ‘hey’ to Mae in passing – 

What is ASSONANCE?

ASSONANCE is the repetition of inner or end VOWEL sounds of nearby words that do not rhyme.

EXAMPLEI made my way through the neighborhood to the lake .

Fred said, “I hear the mellow wedding bells.

ASSONANCE MEMORY TIP

YOU CAN FIND ASSONANCE IN THE BIBLICAL SYNONYM

FOR DONKEY.

ASSONANCE“Assonance is sweet

and easy to remember – like me. How many vowels can yowl and howl now that the hour is come and the donkey is in the house?” says Jack the donkey.

Repeated vowel sounds within the words of a line of text.

CONSONANCESam murmured, namely because his memories seemed to be missing.

What is CONSONANCE?

CONSONANCE is the repetition of the inner consonant sounds of nearby words that do not rhyme.

EXAMPLEI dropped Michaela's crystal necklace into the thick ooze.

The dove moved above the waves.

CONSONANCE MEMORY TIP

THE REPETITION OF THE

CONSONANT SOUND

CONRAD’S DAD DECLARED, “LISTEN, INSIDE THE WORD, SON!”

CONSONANCETHE IS VERY LITTLE CONSONANCE

AMONG THE NAMES OF THE 7 CONTINENTS!

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F (PH) M T CH G N V TH H P W NG

OnomatopoeiaWords that sound like the sound they represent.

SputterSplashBarkMeowSizzleChuckFlapsplat

 

The rusty spigotsputters,uttersa splutter,spatters a smattering of drops,gashes wider;slashsplattersscattersspurtsfinally stops sputteringand plash!gushes rushes splashesclear water dashes.

“Onomatopoeia” by Eve Merriam

PREPARATION: Each of you will be given a separate flavor to practice saying.

Find your flavor on your copy of the poem and mark it for later.

Listen for your flavor on the video version. Practice it out loud several times. Ask if you are unsure of pronunciation.

DOMINO READ!!!!

PERFORMANCE: Read along on the main copy.

When your turn comes be ready so the poem flows quickly

Parallelism • The purposeful repetition of words,

phrases, or grammatical structures in poetic language.

I like popcorn!

I like candy!

I like chips!

I like ice cream!

I need to brush my teeth!

The Gettysburg Address is one of the greatest examples of PARALLELISM in American Literature.

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Picture Puzzle PieceBy: Shel Silverstein

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womanIt might be the veil of

a bride

Who lived in a shoe.It might be a magical

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stepmotherGave to Snow White.

POETIC DEVICES Which help us to create rhythm

with words

Poetic Structure devices

• Stanzas• Couplets• Tercets• Quatrains• Emjambment• Free verse

Stanzas• A Group of lines in traditional poetry.

What Bugs Me When my teacher tells me to write a poem.When my mother tells me to clean up my room.When my sister practices her violin while I’m watching TV.When my father tells me to turn off the TV and do my homework.

When my brother picks the fight and I have to go to bed early.When my teacher asks me to get up in front of the class and read the poem I wrote on the school bus.

stanza

In essays we have paragraphs, in poetry we have stanzas.

Stanza types

• Couplet = 2 lines

• Tercet or triplet = 3 lines

• Quatrain = 4 lines

EnjambmentEnjambment is about the white space of a poem,

the spaces in between and at the end of lines.

Formal definition: when a poet stops a line and starts a new line, without regard for punctuation.

Check out page 16 in the poetry anthology.“The Question Mark”

Free Verse

• Poems that do NOT follow a fixed pattern, format or scheme. Typically free verse poetry lacks rhyme or a fixed rhythm.

PARALLELISM:

“…But, in a larger sense, we can not consecrate, we can not dedicate, we can not hallow this ground. …..”

“….and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

From The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Quick You-tube Review

Poetry• Poetry is literature which uses fewer words

to communicate; emphasizing emotions, and images through poetic devises.

• Most poems were written to be read aloud.

• Poems may or may not rhyme.

• Poems may or may not follow a formal structure.

“INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BAD DAY” BY SHANE KOYCZAN.

This is a form of poetry called, “Performance or Spoken Poetry” . The poet does not write the poem down for publication.

The written form in the youtube video is because someone else listened and transcribed the poem.

The poem contains excellent instances of parallelism, imagery and simple rhymes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXbPQi_xNiU