Poetry/Figurative LanguagePoetry/Figurative Language

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“We Got the Beat“We Got the Beat

Poetry has a beat or RHYTHMA major element of poetry is

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH

Poetry has a beat or RHYTHMA major element of poetry is

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/FIGURES OF

SPEECH

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/FIGURES OF

SPEECH Language that is shaped by the

imagination. A Figure of Speech is never literally

true--but suggests an idea to our imagination.

Language that is shaped by the imagination.

A Figure of Speech is never literally true--but suggests an idea to our imagination.

MetaphorMetaphor

A comparison of unlike things in which a connection is revealed. A metaphor allows us to speak in an imaginative shorthand

“The fog comes in on little cat feet”--Sandburg

A comparison of unlike things in which a connection is revealed. A metaphor allows us to speak in an imaginative shorthand

“The fog comes in on little cat feet”--Sandburg

SimileSimile

A figure of speech that uses the words--like, as, than or resembles.

In a good simile, the comparison is unexpected, but reasonable.

“My love is LIKE a red, red rose.”--Burns

A figure of speech that uses the words--like, as, than or resembles.

In a good simile, the comparison is unexpected, but reasonable.

“My love is LIKE a red, red rose.”--Burns

PERSONIFICATIONPERSONIFICATION

Personification is when we attribute human qualities to nonhuman things or to an abstract idea.

“As I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me”--Dickinson

Personification is when we attribute human qualities to nonhuman things or to an abstract idea.

“As I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me”--Dickinson

SymbolSymbol

A SYMBOL is often an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached extraordinary meaning.

SYMBOLS like all figures of speech allow the poet to suggest layers and layers of meaning.

Common symbols: American flag, heart(love), etc.

Imagery

Seeing with our minds. An image is a representation of anything we can:

SEE--HEAR--TASTE--TOUCH--SMELL

“The loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with blooms along the bough.”-

Housman

Rhythm/Meter

Poetry is a musical kind of speech.Poetry is based on rhythmPoets can use meter--a strict, rhythmic pattern

of stressed/unstressed syllables in each lineIamb (u /)-insistTrochee(/ u)-doubleAnapest(u u /)-understandDactyl(/ u u)-excellentSpondee(/ /)-football

FREE VERSEFREE VERSE

Free Verse is poetry that is free from the old metric rules.--Free Verse is a loose kind of rhythm in which the sounds of long phrases are balanced against short verses.

Free Verse is poetry that is free from the old metric rules.--Free Verse is a loose kind of rhythm in which the sounds of long phrases are balanced against short verses.

RHYMERHYME

The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all following sounds in a word.

End rhyme--rhyme at the end of lines:”Three young rats with black felt hats Three young ducks with white straw flats.

The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all following sounds in a word.

End rhyme--rhyme at the end of lines:”Three young rats with black felt hats Three young ducks with white straw flats.

RHYMERHYME

Internal rhyme--rhyme within a line. “It was on Wednesday night, the

moon was shining bright.’--anonymous

RHYME SCHEME is the pattern of rhyme.

Internal rhyme--rhyme within a line. “It was on Wednesday night, the

moon was shining bright.’--anonymous

RHYME SCHEME is the pattern of rhyme.

Alliteration

• Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that appear close together.

• “Bright balloons bouncing on the boardwalk’--Sloan

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like they they mean:

Examples: snap, crackle, pop, woof, meow--etc.

Types of Poetry: Sonnet

Sonnet--strict structure14 lines--3 quatrains of 4

rhyming lines and ending couplet that rhymes

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day Thou art more lovely and more temperate Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course,

untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his

shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ---William Shakespeare

Ballad

A story poem meant to be sung: “Bonny Barbara Allen” anonymous Oh, in the merry month of May When all things were a-blooming. Sweet William came from the Western

states And courted Barbara Allen…