Poetry

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Poetry

• 9 Honors English

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What is Poetry??

• Poetry captures images and impressions of life
  and experiences through the use of well-chosen
  words and phrases. Though it is not written
  using traditional sentences and paragraphs, it is
  not random. It has its own set of features and
  rules.

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We need to look for
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Tone

• The authors, or speakers attitude- stated or
  unstated- toward a subject or audience.

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Imagery

• The use of language to represent experiences of
  the senses- seen, touched, heard, tasted and
  smelled

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Sound

• Poetry is meant to be both read and heard.
• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Slant Rhyme
• Instead of perfect or identical sounds or rhyme,
  it is the repetition of near or similar sounds or
  the pairing of accented and unaccented sounds
  that if both were accented would be perfect
  rhymes (stopped and wept, parable and shell).
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

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Figurative Language

• The opposite of literal language
• It is NOT meant to be understood exactly as it
  appears
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Allusions
• Irony
• Symbolism

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Two ways of making a comparison

• Metaphors and Similes

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Personification

• Giving human traits or characteristics to
  non-humans

The bells sang. The banana begged to be eaten.
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Hyperbole

• Vast exaggeration of the truth to make a point.

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• Allusion-
• a reference in a literary work to a person,
  place, or thing in history or another work of
  literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief
  references to well-known characters or events.

• Irony
• a literary term referring to how a person,
  situation, statement, or circumstance is not as
  it would actually seem. Many times it is the
  exact opposite of what it appears to be.

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Symbolism

• Symbol is a word or object that stands for
  another word or object. The object or word can be
  seen with the eye or not visible.