What is

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What is POETRY?
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• THE REAL DEFINITION OF POETRY IS
• UP TO YOU!
• Take a moment to write your own definition of
  poetry.IAN. Pg. 17

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Is POETRY important?

• Poetry takes a simple concept and makes it more
  powerful and beautiful
• Which one of these poems is better? Why?

The Turtle breaks from the blue-black skin of
the water, dragging her shell with its mossy
scutes across the shallows and through the
rushes and over the mudflats, to the uprise, to
the yellow sand, to dig her ungainly feet a
nest, and hunker there spewing her white eggs
down into the darkness By Mary Oliver
The Turtle comes out of the water walks across
the sand digs a nest and lays some eggs By
Mr. Brooks
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WHAT IS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?

• Figurative language goes beyond the literal
  meaning of a word or phrase.
• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ITS LIKE A SIMILE

• a comparison of two unlike things using the
  words like or as.
• Examples of simile
• Life is like a box of chocolates.
• The girl is as beautiful as a rose.
• The willow is like an etching

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEIT IS A METAPHOR

• a comparison of two unlike things without using
  the words like or as.
• Examples of metaphor
• My father is a tall, sturdy oak.
• The hotel is a diamond in the sky.
• The moon is a large, white balloon.

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEPERSONIFICATION

• the giving of human qualities to an animal,
  object, or idea.
• Examples of personification
• Hunger sat shivering on the road.
• The flowers danced on the lawn.
• The chair skated across the floor.
• NOTE SpongeBob SquarePants and Smokey the
  Bear are personified characters.

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEHYPERBOLE

• - an exaggerated statement used to make a point.
  
• Examples of hyperbole
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• I could sleep for a year.
• This book weighs a ton.

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEIMAGINE THE IMAGERY

• -figures of speech or which appeal to the five
  senses (sight, touch, smell, taste, hear).
• Examples of imagery
• Her clammy back felt like bark of the tree after
  a summers rain.
• the small pond behind my house was lapping at
  its banks
• The willows music is like a soprano

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WHAT IS A SOUND DEVICE?

• It is the effect a poem has depending on the
  sound of its words.
• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES

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SOUND DEVICESOUNDS LIKE ONOMATOPOEIA

• - the use of words whose sounds suggest their
  meanings.
• Examples of onomatopoeia
• The bang of a gun.
• The hiss of a snake.
• The buzz of a bee.
• The pop of a firecracker.

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SOUND DEVICE REPETITION

• - the repeating of sound, words, phrases or lines
  in a poem used to emphasize an idea or give a
  certain feeling.
• Examples of repetition
• Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has
  taught us, Sing a song of the hope that the
  present has brought us
• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I
  think I can
• The isolation during my vacation created a
  situation of relaxation.

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SOUND DEVICE I RHYME ALL THE TIME AND I GUESS
IT SOUNDS FINE

• repetition of sound at the ends of words.
• Rhyme occurring within a line is called internal
  rhyme.
• Rhyme occurring at the end of a line is called
  end rhyme)
• Rhyme Scheme the pattern of end rhyme in a
  poem. Lines that rhyme are given the same
  letter.
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• Example of internal rhyme, end rhyme, and rhyme
  scheme
• I looked at the shell in the ocean A
• I looked at the bell in the sea, B
• I noticed the smell and the motion A
• Were very peculiar to me. B

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SOUND DEVICE DO YOU HAVE RHYTHM? LETS CLAP!

• the pattern of sound created by stressed (more
  emphasis, ) and unstressed (less emphasis, ?)
  syllables. Many poems are given diacritical
  markings ( and ?) depending on the rhythm.
• Example of rhythm
• I looked at the shell in the ocean
• I looked at the bell in the sea,
• I noticed the smell and the motion
• Were very peculiar to me.

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SOUND DEVICE ASSONANCE

• - repetition of VOWEL SOUNDS at the BEGINNING,
  MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of
  poetry.
• Examples of Assonance
• Repeating the eh sound in the words
  crescent, flesh, extending, medicine and
  death

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SOUND DEVICE CONSONANCE

• - repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the
  BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in
  a line of poetry.
• Examples of Consonance
• Repeating the sh sound in the words shush,
  wish, sharp, cushion and quash

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SOUND DEVICE ALLITERATION

• - repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING
  of at least two words in a line of poetry.
• Examples of Alliteration
• Frank the frog frolicked frivolously on the
  furry forest floor.
• Little skinny shoulder blades Sticking through
  your clothes
• Sandy sold seashells by the seashore.

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WHAT IS FORM?

• It is the physical arrangement of the words on
  the page, sometimes involving rhyme and rhythm.
  (How does the poem look on the paper?)
• LINE a sentence or fragment of sentence.
• STANZA a group of lines in a poem.
• Prose paragraphs and sentences
• Poetry stanzas and lines

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FORM COUPLET

• -a pair of lines that rhyme. A couplet may be a
  poem in itself or part of a larger poem.
• What is an example of a COUPLET?
• The artist stirred some blue and green
• To paint an underwater scene.

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FORM HAIKU

• -an unrhymed poem consisting of three lines and
  seventeen (17) syllables. These poems are
  normally about nature.
• The first line is five (5) syllables.
• The second line is seven (7) syllables.
• The third line is five (5) syllables.
• What is an example of a HAIKU?
• The autumn wind blows, (5 syllables)
• Calling the leaves on the ground (7 syllables)
• To join him in dance. (5 syllables)

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FORM LIMERICK

• -a funny five-line poem made up of thirteen (13)
  beats with an AABBA rhyme scheme. The poem is
  named after the city of Limerick in Ireland.
• Example of a LIMERICK
• There was a young boy from Caboo, (3 beats)
• Who had trouble tying his shoe. (3 beats)
• He said to his ox, (2 beats)
• Ill just walk in my socks. (2 beats)
• Now all of his friends do that, too! (3 beats)

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FORM FREE VERSE

• Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of
  rhyme and rhythm. The lines flow more naturally
  and have everyday speech rhythm. Poets who
  write in free verse often use the sound devices
  we have already discussed.
• Southbound on the Freeway
• They all hiss as they glide,
• like inches, down the marked
• tapes. Those soft shapes,
• shadowy inside
• the hard bodies are they
• their guts or their brains
• - by May Swenson

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ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT TODAYS LESSON

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
• SOUND DEVICES
• FORM