POETRY

1. POETRY Figurative Language

2. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • Tools that an author uses to help the reader see what is happening in a poem or story. • Simile • metaphor • Personification • alliteration • Onomatopoeia • Hyperbole • Imagery • idiom • puns • sensory language

3. SIMILE • A simile is a comparison using like or as. • It usually compares two dissimilar objects. • His feet were as big as boats. • He is As poor as dirt • I am As sick as a dog

4. When I am tired, I am as _________________. • When I am sad, I am like _________________. • When I am annoyed, I am as ______________. • When I am sleepy, I am like ______________.

5. METAPHOR • A metaphorstates that one thing is something else. • It’s a comparison, but does NOT use like or as • Her hair is silk • He was a hog at dinner • Her room is a refrigerator • I am a __________ when ____________________.

6. Personification • Giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects. • Making a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do. • The sun smiled on me. • The verb, smiled, is a human action. • The sun is an inanimate object. • Tears gently kissed my cheeks. • The verb, kissed, is a human action. • Tears are inanimate objects. • Toy story!!!

7. Nursery Rhymes • Hey diddle, Diddle,The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon;The little dog laughed To see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon. • Ladybug ladybug, fly away home,Your house in on fire And your children are gone,All except one and that's little Ann,For she crept under the frying pan.

8. ALLITERATION • Repetition of initial sounds in two or more neighboring words. • It’s like rhyming, but the rhyme comes at the front of the words instead of the end. • Alliterations you might Recognize: • Bertie Botts • Dudley Dursley • Minerva McGonagall • Severus Snape • Cho Chang • Rowena Ravenclaw • Godric Gryffindor …… .. and so many more!!! • ?? Know any students with alliterations for names ??

9. Alliteration Tongue Twisters • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? • A flea and a fly in a flueWere caught so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee!" Said the flea, "Let us fly!"So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

10. Silly Story Beginnings • “In my time I've suffered absolute acute agony after an attack by an angry and aggressive ant, been bitten by a belligerent bull-ant, clawed by a cunning, calculating cat, savaged by a sneaky, snarling schnauzer, and received painful injuries from other members of the animal kingdom. But I'm still fond of most animals.”

11. Assignment You Choose: Personification • Write a poem about a season • Use personifications to describe the wind, trees, temperature, and sun. • Use at least 5 different personifications • Ten lines of “rhyming” poetry Alliteration • Write one alliteration for each letter of the alphabet • Each alliteration must be at least three words • Hint: use this pattern if you get stuck— • Adjective Noun Verb Adjective

12. Angela Abigail Applewhite ate anchovies and artichokes. • Bertha Bartholomew blew big, blue bubbles. • Clever Clifford Cutter clumisily closed the closet clasps. • Dwayne Dwiddle drew a drawing of dreaded Dracula. • Elmer Elwood eluded elven elderly elephants. • Floyd Flingle flipped flat flapjacks. • Greta Gruber grabbed a group of green grapes. • Hattie Henderson hated happy healthy hippos. • Ida Ivy identified the ivory iris. • Julie Jackson juggled the juicy, jiggly jello. • Karl Kessler kept the ketchup in the kitchen. • Lila Ledbetter lugged a lot of little lemons. • Milton Mallard mailed a mangled mango. • Norris Newton never needed new noodles. • Patsy planter plucked plump, purple, plastic plums. • Quinella Quist quite quickly quelled the quarreling quartet. • Randy Rathbone wrapped a rather rare red rabbit. • Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short, shirt. • Trina Tweety tripped two twittering twins under a twiggy tree. • Uri Udall usually used his unique, unusual unicycle. • Vicky Vinc viewed a very valuable vase. • Walter Whipple warily warned the weary warrior. • Xerxes Xenon expected to xerox extra x-rays. • Yolana Yvonne Yarger yodeled up yonder yesterday. • Zigmund Zane zig-zagged through the zany zoo zone.

13. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. • These words help us form mental pictures about the things, people, or places that are described by copying the sound. • Bang! Hiss! Buzz! Pop!

15. Hyperbole • A hyperbole is an exaggeration. • Can be confused with a simile or a metaphor because it often compares two objects. • Hyperbole is used for emphasis or humorous effect. • His feet were as big as a barge. • a barge is approximately 700 feet long. Imagine getting a pair of shoes that big!

16. "My sister uses so much makeup,... • "when she smiles her cheeks fall off.“ • "by the time she gets it all on, it's time to take it off!“ • "when she takes it off she loses 30 pounds!“ • "she could pass as a clown at the circus.“ • "she bought out Mary Kay just to have enough makeup for one day!"

17. "My teacher is so old,...(never use these!!!) • "she gets a seniors discount at the nursing home!“ • "she personally knew Shakespeare!“ • "she taught cave men to start a fire.“ • "she remembers when the dinosaurs died!“ • "she knows how to speak cave-man language!"

18. "My dog is so ugly,... • " we have to wait 'till midnight to take him on walks.“ • "We had to pay the fleas to live on him!“ • "you can't tell if she's coming or going“ • "he saw himself in a mirror and ran away!“ • "he only has cat friends!"

19. Common Hyperbole’s • "I think of you all the time.“ • “It was so cold, I froze to death waiting for the bus!” • “Her eyes are so big, it’s like they're going to jump out and grab you!” • “I nearly died laughing!” • “I’ve told you a million times!!”

20. Death by HyperboleBy Daniel Evans Let Tsunamis wash over me and volcanoes explode on me, • order fire to consume, the cold earth to entomb. Invent diseases to sicken me, plagues that just pick on me, • bring on tornadoes and hurricanes, send floods from all origins. But please don't leave me. Find vipers to bite, African elephants to smite, • Grizzly bears to unbowel me [sic], Great White sharks to devour me, • bulls to gore, piranhas that gnaw, • birds (they can peck), what the heck, • stampede herds that will trample, grow plants that can strangle. Pay robbers to shoot me, offer knives while they loot me, • use sticks and throw stones, just aim at my bones. Call on henchmen to hurt me, tell your friends all about me, • clone me then kill me twice, you might find that nice. But please don't leave me. • because if you do, I will surely o.d.on far too much hy-per'-bo-lee.

21. IMAGERY • The use of vivid description, using one or more senses to create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind • Imagery uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses • These memories can be positive or negative which will contribute to the mood of your poem

22. Using your senses • Find your subject then think about a description for each sense • This will create a sensory image in your readers mind

23. Sonnet CXXX • My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare. • --William Shakespeare--

24. Assignment You Choose: Hyperbole • Write ten hyperboles not given as examples in class • Choose one and draw a literal picture interpreting that hyperbole. • Onomatopoeia • Write a poem describing either a sporting event, an element (fire, water, wind, earth), or • Use ten different onomatopoeia’s to describe the chosen subject. • Poem can be either rhyming or free verse. Ten lines total.

25. Assignment OR: Imagery • Using all five senses, recreate in your own words any scene from a favorite book or movie. • Use at least 2 descriptions for each sense. • Recreation should be half a page (no less). Sense chart should be completed also.