Transcript Poetry
Terms and Definitions Types of Rhyme Approximate Rhyme: when two words’ sounds are very close to rhyming but not exact Ex: Mind, Sign End Rhyme: rhymes that occur at the end of a line Internal Rhyme: rhyming words that fall within a single line of poetry Types of Rhyme Practice Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 'I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.' Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, When I looked back into your small room you were standing like a cracked diver in an aquarium's gloom. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Measuring Rhyme Rhyme Scheme: a pattern of rhyme formed by end rhyme. To identity the rhyme scheme, the reader applies a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme (a, a, b, b) (a, b, a, b) (a, b, b, a) etc… Rhyme Scheme Practice A word is dead When it is said Some say. I think it just begins to live That day. There was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once – she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to the milkman’s door. (That’s why I have not traveled more.) I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the daylight falls And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. Figurative Language Metaphor: comparing two things that are seemingly unalike (often uses am, is, are, was, and were) Onomatopoeia: the word sounds like the noise it makes Personification: giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals Simile: comparing seemingly unlike things by using “like” “as” or “than” Figurative Language Practice M= metaphor O= onomatopoeia P = personification S = Simile _____My love has concrete feet. My love’s an iron ball. _____I hear those sleigh bells ring ting tingling too. _____Do you ever feel like a plastic bag. _____Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street. _____If love is just a game, I must have missed the kickoff. _____Boom, clap the sound of my heart. The beat goes on. _____The highway won’t hold you tonight. _____I’m gonna’ fly like a bird through the night. _____Tick tock on the clock, but the party don’t stop. _____Your soul is haunting me. Literary Devices Hyperbole: an exaggeration often for a humorous effect Irony: Something that is the opposite of it’s expectation, meaning (dramatic, situational, verbal) Oxymoron: an adjective modifying a noun when the two seem to be contradictory Pun: a play on words (often meant to be humorous) Literary Devices Practice _____We've eaten and eaten until it hurts giving a whole new meaning to just desserts. _____Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste? _____If you want to be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife. _____We said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times. _____It's rain on your wedding day. It's a free ride when you've already paid. H I P O = hyperbole = irony = pun = oxymoron _____Let’s be alone together. Let’s stay young forever. _____If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me? _____It's gonna’ take a lot to drag me away from you. There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do _____ People talking without speaking; people hearing without listening; and no one dared disturb the sound of silence. _____You know the bed feels warmer sleeping here alone Repetition Devices Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Anaphora: repetition of a word or phrase in close proximity Assonance: the repetition of the vowel sounds within a line of poetry Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words Polysyndeton: repetition of a coordinating conjunction (but, or, yet, so, far, and, nor) in a line or within beginning of lines Repetition Devices Practice All = alliteration Ana = anaphora As = assonance Con = consonance Poly = polysyndeton brighter green in a the city graveyard. _____ I'll swing by my ankles. She'll cling to your knees as you hang by your nose. But just one thing, don't sneeze. _____ I saw crumbling schools. I saw shuttered mills and homes for sale. I saw what America is and what this country can be. _____The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry. _____The grass always seems to grow a _____Football demands outrage, and stamina ,and coordinated efficiency, and goes even beyond that. _____ Lowering his head, he goes towing his burdens which are growing in weight. _____At the break of day, the sky glazed over in a hazy light. _____ A time to be born, a time to die, a time to kill, a time to heal a time to laugh, a time to weep, and a time to every purpose under heaven _____ If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, _____ Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair. a hoper, a prayer, a magic bean buyer, a pretender, come sit by my fire. Terms Post Test 1) Ninety Knights of the air ride super high tech jet fighters 2) The fruit mixed with water in layers of leaves, like two kinds of jewels, a vision for thieves 3) I enjoyed the shade in the hidden glade, and spread out the picnic that I had made 4) The man in the orange cummerbund ended his bland speech with a bow Terms Post Test 5) Half your life is gone and suddenly your wise. In a blink of an eye 67 is gone. 6) Unable to tolerate the growing sound, the teacher asked students to keep it down 7) Don't let them in, don't let them see. Be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know. 8) The fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all! Terms Post Test 9) At the end of a ceremony celebrating the rehabilitation of seals after oil spill in Alaska, two seals were released back into the wild only to be eaten within a minute by a killer whale. 10) Laughter is always the best medicine for a sorrowful heart. 11) The best thing to do is act naturally when stopped by the cops. 12) Bravely climbing, the boy cut the bananas from the tree, and they bounced to the ground bruising slightly. Terms Post Test 13) You gave a kick. I gave a slap. You smashed a plate over my head. 14) Atheism is a non-profit organization. 15) The Lord did grin and people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bars. 16) In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.