Transcript Poetry In the Ear PPT blank notes

Poetry Terms
In the Ear
In the Ear—Alliteration
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Example
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“We wear the mask that grins and lies,/”
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”
In the Ear—Consonance
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Example
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“We wear the mask that grins and lies,/
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--/”
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”
In the Ear—Assonance
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Example:
“Like stalks of tall, dry straw
At poor peace I sing”
Dylan Thomas, “Prologue”
In the Ear—Onomatopoeia
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Examples:
Clang
 Buzz
 Twang
 swoosh
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In the Ear—Repetition
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We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
In the Ear – End Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme
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The Storm
James K. McAlister
Wind rustled crunching leaves
That on the sidewalk lay.
There was a big storm coming
On a windy Autumn day.
Thunder rumbled overhead
And shook me through and through.
A jagged bolt of lightning struck!
The sky then cracked in two!
Rain washed down the dirty road.
It hissed, and gushed, and muttered.
The downpour swept dead leaves away
Into the bubbling gutter.
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In the Ear—Internal Rhyme
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We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
In the Ear—Rhythm
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Regular is called meter
 Random is called Free Verse
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Contemporary poetry often uses ___________________