Poetry

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Poetry

• Figures of Speech

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Figures of Speech

• Figures of speech are a special language tools
  use by poets and other writer to make their
  writing more colorful. The various figured of
  speech can add drama, detail, and depth to
  poetry.
• Some commonly used figures of speech are
• Alliteration Simile
• Assonance Metaphor
• Consonance Imagery
• Onomatopoeia Hyperbole
• Personification

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Alliteration

• The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in
  two or more words or syllables is called
  alliteration
• setting sun tiny tot beautifully blue
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• Words dont necessarily have to begin with the
  same letter to sound alike. Carrot and cereal
  both begin with C, but the sound is not the
  same. Kitty and carrot, pheasant and fish, new,
  knew and gnu are alliterative because even though
  they start with different letters they repeat the
  same sound.

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Alliteration

• Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short shirt
• Vicky Vinc viewed a very valuable vase.
• Yolanda Yvonne Yarger yodeled up yonder
  yesterday.
• Elmer Elwood eluded eleven elderly elephants.

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Alliteration example

• Betty Baker bought some butter,"But," said she,
  "this butter's bitter.If I put it in my
  batter,It will make my batter bitter."

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Assonance and Consonance 

• Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound in
  two or more words or syllables
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• Door and four feed and read can
  and pan
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• Lous two new cows do choose to use
• A Moo moo mood to view Hughs ewes.
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• In the last example, did you notice that only two
  words (a and cow ) do not contain the oo
  sound?

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Assonance and Consonance

• Consonance is the repetition of a consonant sound
  in two or more words or syllables
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• When flitting flies flutter fast
• Toad flicks a lick as they fly past.
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• Assonance and consonance can also be combined in
  a poem
• Pelicans with scooping skills
• Dive for fish to fill their bills.

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Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia uses words that imitate the sounds
  they describe. Buzz, for example, sound very
  much like the noise a bee makes. Many animal
  sounds are onomatopoeias.
• Plonk, stomp, creak, squeak, roar, etc.

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Onomatopoeia
POW!
CRACK!
Kazam!
THUMP
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Hyperbole

• Hyperbole is a way of describing something by
  exaggerating.
• A hyperbole overstates the truth to make it more
  colorful and forceful and to express strong
  feeling. Imagination plays a big part in
  hyperbole. The exaggeration goes beyond the
  natural or real and is so obvious that you know
  it cant be true.

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• Everyone in the world likes ice cream
• The lion had a roar that would flatten all the
  trees in the jungle.
• I felt so low that I could crawl under the belly
  of the worm.
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• Using hyperboles in a poem can have a dramatic
  effect
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• Flapping its wings fiercely
• An eagle conquered the sky.
• -Trang Ngo

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Simile

• A poet uses similes and metaphors to describe two
  different things in a way that makes them seem
  equal or similar.
• A simile compares two things by using the words
  as, like as if seems and appears
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• My legs feel like frozen fish sticks
• Fresh as a daisy
• Pretty as a picture

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Simile - example

• Linesin a new notebookrun, even and fine,like
  telephone wiresacross a snowy landscape.
• With wet, black strokesthe alphabet settles
  between them,comfortable as a flock of crows.
• Judith Thurman

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The Book Emily Dickinson

• There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands
  away,Nor any coursers like a pageOf prancing
  poetry.This traverse may the poorest
  takeWithout oppress of tollHow frugal is the
  chariotThat bears a human soul!

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Assignment

• 1) Define the following terms
• Frigate toll
• Coursers frugal
• Traverse chariot
• oppress
• 2) In two paragraphs, discuss what is being
  compared in this poem.
• 3) What else could Emily Dickinson used to
  compare and describe the book?
• 4) How do you think Emily Dickinson feels about
  books? What point is she trying to get across to
  the reader?

• The Book
• Emily Dickinson
• There is no frigate like a book
• To take us lands away,
• Nor any coursers like a page
• of prancing poetry.
• This traverse may the poorest
• take without oppress of toll
• How frugal is the chariot
• That bears a human soul!

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Assignment 2

• Read the poem Willow and Gingko
• Create a list of all of the comparisons made in
  this poem.
• Describe, in your own words, how the author views
  the willow and the gingko.
• What is the authors opinion of these two trees?
• Chose 2 objects that can be compared/contrasted
  and write a simile poem of your own. You must
  include at least 4 comparisons.

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Metaphor

• A metaphor compares two things by stating or
  implying that one thing actually is the other.
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• The sun is a golden ball rolling around in a sky
  blue bowl.
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• Robert Burns wrote my love is like a red, red,
  rose.

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Metaphor - example

• Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a
  broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.
• Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams goLife is a
  barren fieldFrozen with snow.
• Langston Hughs

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Personification

• Personification gives human qualities, feelings,
  action or characteristics to inanimate
  (non-living) objects.
• When sun goes homebehind the trees,and locks
  her shutters tight
• then stars come outwith silver keysto open up
  the night.
• Norma Farber

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Personification

• Maple blush so red in fall
• Cause soon theyll have
• No clothes at all!
• The tree clawed at John with its bony fingers.
• The friendly eye of the streetlight watched over
  me until I was safe.

• THE SUN
• As the sun
• comes out, she
• glows upon us.
• I try to find
• somewhere cool,
• but always see
• her right behind me.
• She loves herself
• and when shes bored
• Shell paint the sky
• And cal it sunset.
• Before she says goodbye.

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Imagery

• Imagery involves one or more of your five senses.
  An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate
  your memory of those senses. These memories can
  be positive or negative which will contribute to
  the mood of the poem.

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Imagery Example

• Cheetah Run
• Swift as the wind,
• Running with grace,
• As his slender body
• Breaks the wind like an arrow in flight
• Pounding the earth with feet that never seem to
  touch the ground,
• Eyes looking straight, never moving
• A face of solid stone
• Yellow color and black spots blurring with each
  movement,
• Never breaking the rhythm of the run,
• Always running with grace.