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3-2-12 . Review: Analyzing a Poem. Today’s Agenda. MINI LESSON : Sound devices in poetry WORK TIME : Scavenger Hunt for sound devices in the SAME poems! HOMEWORK : finish the Scavenger Hunt. Personification.

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3-2-12

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  1. 3-2-12 Review: Analyzing a Poem

  2. Today’s Agenda • MINI LESSON: Sound devices in poetry • WORK TIME: Scavenger Hunt for sound devices in the SAME poems! • HOMEWORK: finish the Scavenger Hunt

  3. Personification • When a writer makes a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do • When a non-human subject is given human characteristics • Example-The wind yells.

  4. Personification continued… Create your own personification examples using the following nouns. -iPod - Uggs -Kindle -Laptop

  5. Hyperbole • an extreme exaggeration • can be used to create mood and evoke strong feelings • Example: “I ate a billion cookies!”

  6. Hyperbole continued… Create a hyperbole about your PCR book’s protagonist, or about something the protagonist did. • Example-”Cap Anderson’s hair stands ten feet high!”

  7. Alliteration • the repetition of a consonant sound or sounds at the beginning of words that are close together. • Two repeated sounds is ok; three is better! • Example: Hear the loud alarum bells--Brazen bells!What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! --Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

  8. Alliteration • Create an alliteration using your PCR book’s title. • It should convey the book’s mood. • Crazy kids in Connections not being kind

  9. Onomatopoeia • the use of words to imitate sounds • words whose sounds suggest their meaning Zoom BuzzZing Fizz Ding dong POW Ping Bang Beep RattleSNAP! Hiss RING BOOM! PopCrackle SizzleWhack Hum

  10. Onomatopoeia • Give an example of onomatopoeia for each category. -car sound -an animal • Invent an onomatopoeia word to imitate a sound.

  11. Rhyme • Repetition of sounds at the end of words • Gives a song-like quality to a poem end rhyme -words rhyming at the end of lines The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a Hemlock tree from “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost internal rhyme -rhyming words within lines Once upon a midnight dreary,while I pondered, weak and weary from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

  12. Couplet • A structure of some poems • A pair of lines that have an end rhyme Example: He came upon an age Beset by grief, by rage from “Martin Luther King” by Raymond Richard Patterson

  13. Rhythm • Pattern of repeated stressed and unstressed syllables. • In poetry and music, it creates a beat or pulse. Example: Pause at the / “I pledge allegiance/ to the Flag/ of the United States of America/ and to the Republic/ for which it stands/one nation/under God/ indivisible/with liberty /and justice for all.“ Non-Example: Pause at the / “I pledge/ allegiance to the Flag of/ the United States of America/ and /to the Republic for which it stands, one nation/ under God indivisible with liberty /and justice for all."

  14. Rhythm • Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in language Sound Devices in MUSIC Listen and T2T for these songs: find figurative language and sound devices! “Unwritten” lyrics“Unwritten” song “Life is a Highway” lyrics“Life is a Highway” song Feel free to bring in or email a favorite song that is full of sound devices and figurative language!

  15. Scavenger Hunt Part 2 Use the same poems from yesterday’s scavenger hunt to find sound devices.

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