Poetry: “the music of the soul” -Voltaire

1. Poetry: “the music of the soul”-Voltaire Poems can be written in many forms and styles but you can study poetry by putting it in categories. A poem will either be Narrative, Dramatic, or Lyric http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZnt5ZL4Xk&feature=related

2. Types of Poetry • Narrative: A poem that tells a story • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDPH4-yoXmw&feature=BFa&list=PL2BA2DB75B5653E3B • Dramatic: A poem that has speakers/dialogue • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XnJHCJLBKg • Lyric: A poem that expresses an emotion, idea or describes a scene • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRYryt3HIk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

3. Types of Figurative Language • Simile- comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as Example: Life is like a box of chocolates • Metaphor- comparison between two unlike things. Example: Morning is a new sheet of paper

4. Imagery • Imagery refers to language that appeals to the senses. Examples: Breathed deeply the salty air Golden brilliance of the sun The harsh shrill of the siren The velvet thread ran through my fingers The bitter taste of vinegar

5. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like the things they name. Examples: Boom Bang Clang Grunt Bow wow

6. Alliteration • Alliteration-is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in the same line of poetry Example: Suzy sold seashells by the sea shore

7. hyperbole • Hyperbole is extreme exaggeration. Example: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I am so thirsty I could drink a gallon of water

8. Consonance • Consonance is the repetition of a consonant sound anywhere in the line of poetry Example: and yet we trust that somehow good will come

9. Assonance • Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line. Example: the boat is in the mote

10. Forms of poetry • Free verse: no repeating patterns of syllables, no rhyme, conversational, modern. Example: Technology It would be technology If I wrote this poem on a computer. It would be technology If Everything was digital. It would be technology If People invented new things. But... I like the way the world is now

11. Ballad • Example of Ballad Poems - Excerpt • The Mermaid • By Unknown author • Oh the ocean waves may roll, • And the stormy winds may blow, • While we poor sailors go skipping aloft • And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below • And the land lubbers lay down below. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wW4SLv3jgM • Ballad is a song, or songlike poem that rhymes

12. Concrete poem • Concrete poem- a poem in which the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.

13. Sonnet Sonnet is a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme. From Sonnets by Shakespeare: That thereby beauty’s rose might never die. But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee

14. Put it together On a separate piece of paper complete the matching. 1. ___ the dawn comes up like thunder a. Personification 2. ___ much may my melting music mean b. Hyperbole 3. ___ boom c. Assonance 4. ___ his nose is 3 feet long d. Consonance 5. ___ you wet brown bag of a woman e. Metaphor 6. ___ the desk spoke of former days f. Simile 7. ___ short days ago we saw sunset glow g. Imagery 8. ___ and yet we trust that good will come h. Alliteration 9. ___ the smell of rose lingered i. Onomatopoeia

15. Practice Using the same piece of paper finish the phrase to create the literary device: • Simile: School is____________________ • Metaphor: Water, the________________ • Personification: the moon_____________ • Write an example of onomatopoeia • Write an example of alliteration

16. Read the following poem and identify the following literary devices. Making a Fist By Naomi Shihab Nye For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me, a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear. I was seven, I lay in the car watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass. My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin. “How do you know if you are going to die?” I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With strange confidence she answered, “When you can no longer make a fist.” Years later I smile to think of that journey, the borders we must cross separately, stamped with our unanswerable woes. I who did not die, who am still living, still lying in the backseat behind all my questions, clenching and opening one small hand Websites used:-Youtube http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241028 Is this poem narrative, lyric or dramatic? Give two examples of alliteration. List the metaphor List the imagery Reflect on the message of her mother’s words- what do you think the author is saying?