Good Morning!

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Good Morning!

• Please grab both worksheets on your way and write
  down your homework.
• Have quick write journals vocab books

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Poetry

• Language written in lines with strong rhythm and
  images
• Example Any poem you know

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Stanza

• A group of lines in a poem that fit together.
• _____________
• _____________
• _____________
• _____________
• _____________

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Narrative Poem

• A poem that tells a story
• Example Casey at the Bat

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Lyric Poem

• A shorter poem that has strong imagery and shows
  a particular feeling or thought.
• Example The Road Not Taken

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Elegy

• A mournful poem usually focusing on the death of
  someone famous or close to the writer.
• Example O Captain, My Captain by Whitman about
  Lincoln

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Literal Language

• The actual, dictionary meaning of a word
  language that means what it appears to mean

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Figurative Language

• Language used in a special way to create a
  special effect
• Example Put your heads together

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Simile

• A comparison between two unlike things using like
  or as.
• Example his hoofbeats were like miniature
  thunder

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Metaphor

• A comparison between two unlike things
• Example
• Morning is a new sheet of paper to write on

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Hyperbole

• Extreme Exaggeration for effect
• Example I have thousands of errands to do.

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Personification

• Giving human traits to inanimate objects,
  animals, or feelings.
• Example The sun smiled on the happy walkers

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Good Morning!

• Please take out your homework and open up to your
  poetry term glossary.

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Oxymoron

• Literary technique in which two contradictory
  words come together for a special effect
• Example Jumbo shrimp

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SOUNDS OF POETRY
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Rhyme

• Words have the same end sound
• Example hat and cat

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Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme within a line of poetry
• Example Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
  pondered weak and weary

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Rhyme Scheme

• The pattern of rhyme in a poem.
• Example next slide

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Example

• ABCB in
• It doesnt breathe
• It doesnt smell
• It doesnt feel
• So very well.

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Rhythm

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
  the beat
• Example I wandered lonely as a cloud

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Onomatopoeia

• The sound of a word matches its meaning
• Example snap, crackle, pop

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Alliteration

• Repetition of the same consonant sound or letter
  at the beginning of words close together.
• Example Sickly Silence

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Repetition

• The same words or lines repeated for emphasis
• Example And miles to go before I sleep,
• And miles to go before I sleep

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Refrain

• The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at
  regular intervals, especially at the end of each
  stanza
• (chorus of any song)

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Symbol

• Concrete or real object used to represent an idea
  
• Example Bird Freedom

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Good Afternoon!

• Please take out your vocabulary book and open up
  to page 117.
• Please separate your desks in order to get ready
  from the quiz.

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On the back of your quiz, please write the
following three headings

• p. 120
• _______________
• _______________
• p.121
• _________________
• _________________
• p. 123
• _________________

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Please take out your term glossary to finish up
our terms.
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Mood

• The feeling the reader gets from a piece of
  writing atmosphere
• Example happy, eerie, gloomy

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Tone

• Authors attitude toward the subject
• Example serious, sarcastic

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Allusion

• A reference to a familiar person, place, thing,
  or event.
• Example America, Land of opportunity

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Your task

• Write a poem where you have one of the following
• Mood
• Tone
• Allusion
• GOOD LUCK!

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Tone, mood, allusion???

• The dreary, dark demon haunted us today,
• His eyes pierced me with an evil gaze,
• The smoke filled tunnel was his lair,
• Where no one left without a dare