“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” -Edgar Allen Poe

1. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” -Edgar Allen Poe

2. "O my Luve is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune." -Robert Burns

3. “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry.” -Auden

4. “Menelaus and found him in his own house, feasting with his many clansmen in honor of the wedding of his son, and also of his daughter, whom he was marrying to the son of that valiant warrior Achilles.” -The Odyssey

5. “The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea.” -Coleridge

6. “In Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out, the main character was said to have allowed the garbage to pile up to the ceiling, and after that, "The garbage rolled on down the halls, It raised the roof, it broke the walls." And, eventually, "The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate."

7. "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn." -Romeo & Juliet

8. “Comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a similarity in their characteristics”

9. “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune – without the words, And never stops at all, “And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. “I’ve heard it in the chilliest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.” -Dickinson

10. “Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore” -Poe assonance

11. “She must make him happy. She must be She must be his favorite place in Minneapolis. You are a souvenir shop, where he goes to remember how much people miss him when he is gone.” —“Unrequited Love Poem,” Sierra DeMulder

12. “Feeling under the weather you could have knocked me down with a feather. It was like a bolt out of the blue, when I met you. an English rose, in the flower of youth;…” -Williams

13. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief.” -Romeo & Juliet

14. “Sudden crowings of laughter, monotonous drone of song” -Stevenson

15. “And I saw the flash of a white throat, And a double row of white teeth, And eyes of metallic grey, Hard and narrow and slit.” -Pratt

16. “He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.” -Frost

17. “Last night, while I lay thinking here, Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:” -Silverstein

18. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

19. Soft upon my eyelashesTurning my cheeks to pinkSoftly falling, fallingNot a sound in the air Delicately designed in snowFading away at my touchLeaving only a glistening dropAnd its memory - “Crystal Cascades” by Mary Fumento

20. “I must be cruel, only to be kind” -Shakespeare

21. The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves. It can be a material object or a written sign used to represent something invisible.

22. Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear? - from “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes

23. “Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,” said the sunflowers, shining with dew. “Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?” -Blake

24. Key • Alliteration • Simile • Hyperbole • Allusion • Alliteration • Hyperbole • Simile • Analogy • Extended Metaphor • Assonance • Metaphor • Idiom 13. Metaphor 14. Assonance 15. Imagery 16. Consonance 17. Personification 18. Symbolism 19. Imagery 20. Oxymoron 21. Symbolism 22. Onomatopoeia 23. Personification

25. Annotation Example: Step 1 - Read Twice Fame is a bee. (1788) BY EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.

26. Annotation Example: Step 1 - Annotate Fame is a bee. (1788) BY EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. Metaphor Consonance “g” What does this mean? Perhaps fame is fleeting

27. Annotation Example: Step 2 - Find and Support the Theme The theme of this poem is that fame is not all good. It has its pros and cons. • Fame is compared to a bee - an insect that most people have mixed feelings about. • Fame is said to have a song (good) and a sting (bad), so it has pros and cons. • Finally, fame is fleeting. The poet says it has a wing, therefore it doesn’t last. Fame is a bee. (1788) BY EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.

28. Annotation Example: Step 3 - Explain how the form follows the function Fame is a bee. (1788) BY EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. The form of this poem is based primarily on the controlling metaphor that fame is like a bee. Bees can be thought of as both good and frightening, so comparing fame to bees creates a sort of uncertainty. This metaphor relates directly to the function of the poem which is to relate how uncertain a pursuit fame is.

29. Annotation Example: Step 4 - What You Enjoy Fame is a bee. (1788) BY EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. I enjoy the way this poem sounds and how deep the metaphor is even though it is so short and simple.