Grade 11 Poetry Unit

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Grade 11 Poetry Unit

• 10 things to consider .
• Poetic Devices
• Imagery
• Symbolism
• Allusion
• Metre / Rhyme

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Grade 11 Poetry Unit

• Ten things to consider in a poem
• THEME central thought
• IMAGINATION imagery, figures symbolism
• EMOTION kind of effect, mood of the poem
• THOUGHT
• PHILOSOPHY personality
• DESCRIPTION
• ATTITUDE TO LIFE AND MANKIND
• ATTITUDE TO NATURE
• CHARACTER
• THE TOTAL EFFECT OF THE POEM.

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Poetic Devices

• Figurative Language Review

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Alliteration

• The repetition of speech sounds in a sequence of
  nearby words.
• The effect of alliteration is to call attention
  to the words that contain it, and often to
  underline their relationship to each other in
  meaning.

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Alliteration

• Consonance is the sequence of repeated consonants
• Baffled the bird
• Carried the cry
• Hissed in the sun
• Assonance is the repetition of identical or
  similar vowel sounds especially in stressed
  syllables.
• Thou foster child of silence and slow time

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Hyperbole

• An exaggeration statement not meant to be taken
  literally, used mainly for emphasis.
• I am starving to death. (Said by someone whom
  is very hungry)

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Metaphor

• An implied comparison. In a metaphor only one
  part of the comparison is stated and the rest is
  left to the imagination.
• The road was a ribbon of moonlight.

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Simile

• Is a comparison that is introduced with like,
  as, so or as if and that stresses the
  resemblance between two things.
• She looks like a rose.

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Personification

• A figure of speech in which objects are given
  human qualities.
• The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds
• See Stephens The Wind (The Wind)

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Imagery

• Refers to the words used by a poet to recreated
  the thoughts, feelings, or experiences he/she has
  and wishes to share.
• Relies heavily on sense perception
• sight sound, smell, taste, touch
• Helps to make clear and concrete what is abstract
  and difficult to understand.
• See The Fish by Elizabeth
  Bishop
• imagery.doc

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Symbolism

• A visible object or action that suggests some
  further meaning in addition to itself.
• Symbol demands no single necessary
  interpretation, but it points toward and
  indefinite meaning. (X.J. Kennedy)
• The Lightning Is A Yellow Fork- symbolism.doc

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Allusion

• an indirect reference to something.
• The Raven E.A. Poe
• (THE RAVEN)
• The Raven Allusion Sheet
• (The Raven Allusion)
• View at http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFID1CiB4
  bcU

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Metre and Rhythm

• Metre - Traditional forms of verse use
  established rhythmic patterns called meters
  (meter means "measure" in Greek), and that's what
  meters are premeasured patterns of stressed and
  unstressed syllables.
• Rhythm a pattern of stresses in a line of verse
  eg

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Rhyme

• Rhymes are classified by the degree of similarity
  between sounds within words, and by their
  placement within the lines or stanzas.
• A rhyme scheme is usually the pattern of end
  rhymes in a stanza, with each rhyme encoded by a
  letter of the alphabet, from A onward (ABBA BCCB,
  for example).

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Poetry Structures

• Visit Poetry.org for an extensive list of poetry
  structures found under Other
• http//www.poetry.org/termsin.htm (also linked to
  wiki)