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Figures of Speech

Dive into the world of poetic expression, exploring rhythm, imagery, and figures of speech in this comprehensive guide. Learn how to distinguish literal from figurative language, and master poetic devices like similes, metaphors, and personification. Test your knowledge with engaging exercises and discover the power of tone, mood, theme, and symbols in poetry. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned poet, this guide will enhance your understanding and appreciation of the art of verse.

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Figures of Speech

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  1. Figures of Speech Annette Verge Stopka

  2. Poetry • Rhythmic writing • Imagination • Not prose • May or may not rhyme • No rhyme-free verse • Compressed language • Figures of speech often used • Imagery=the five senses (see, hear, smell, taste, touch) Often appeals to our emotions/imagination

  3. Paragraph= stanza • Prose-regular writing-use paragraphs • Poetry-use stanzas

  4. Figures of speech • A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another that is not meant to be understood literally • Ex. Hold your horses. • Ex. Poems hide. • Ex. He is a firecracker.

  5. Literal vs. Figurative Language

  6. Literal vs. Figurative • Literal= true • Non-fiction-true • Figurative- imaginary

  7. What is a simile?

  8. simile • A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

  9. How does Andy eat?

  10. Figuratively speaking, he eats like a…

  11. Simile • Like • As • Resembles • Than

  12. What is a Metaphor? How does it differ from a simile?

  13. He has broom hair

  14. Metaphor is a • A direct comparison • Juliet is the sun, said Romeo. • He has broom hair.

  15. He is a pig!

  16. I am a blue balloonfloating away.

  17. Moon!

  18. Personification: giving human traits to something not human • The rain dances. • The moon walks. • The wheels whine

  19. Pun • Play on words. • Ex. Stay off the grass. (drug rehab) • Grass? (reg. grass or marijuana)

  20. What poetic devices are found here? • What is this hail that hits us like a hammer?

  21. Simile, alliteration, personification • What is this hail that hits us like a hammer?

  22. What is an idiom?

  23. What is the idiom?

  24. What is the idiom?

  25. What is the idiom?

  26. Clear as mud • Not clear at all

  27. By hook or crook • By any means necessary

  28. Apple of my eye • Cherished • Loved • Treasured

  29. Wolf in sheep’s clothing • Someone who appears nice, but is really out to destroy you.

  30. Turn over a new leaf To begin behaving better

  31. My backpack weighs a ton! What does this hyperbole suggest? Hyperbole is an exaggeration

  32. FINALLY, TEST YOURSELF! • Which is the metaphor? • a sea of faces • hair like a web • the sun smiled • Which is the simile? • the sun was an eye • fingers like sausages • pumpkin face • Which uses personification? • the lights blinked • I am a red balloon • as hot as fire • Find the idiom • butterflies dance • butterfly eyelashes • butterflies in my stomach.

  33. Tone: feeling/ attitude • Matter of fact, shocked, suspicious, upset, overwhelmed, uneasy, caring, confident, cocky, rejected, unsafe, worried, tired, embarrassed, anxious, grumpy, trapped, bitter, caring, confused, depressed, sheepish, undecided, demure agitated, exasperated, relieved.

  34. Mood=Atmosphere • The overall feeling about a work of literature, often related to the setting.

  35. Theme • The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals. • The human spirit triumphs over evil. • Beauty is found in nature. • Hopes and dreams give life meaning

  36. Symbol • A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well.

  37. Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad

  38. Old songs from middle ages- Ballads“The Dying Cowboy”

  39. Ballad • Ballad: songlike poem that tells a story, often a sad story of betrayal, death, or loss. • tells a story • uses simple language • has a refrain, usually at the end of each stanza. A refrain is a line or lines that repeat. • simple rhymes • has regular meters • often describes a supernatural event.

  40. Lyric Poem • Expresses Feelings • “Valentine for Ernest Mann” • Theme: Poems hide. • Live in a way that you find poetry/love.

  41. Birdfoot’s Grandpa • Expresses feelings….. • Lyric

  42. Lyric Poems include: • Lyric • Sonnet (14 lines) • Elegy (sad, mournful, serious, about loss or death) • Ode (serious, formal language—celebrate) • All lyric poems express feelings!

  43. Ode • Formal language • Serious • Celebrates one thing/ person

  44. rhythm • The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables • “For My Grandmother” • This lovely flower fell to seed • Work gently, sun and rain; • She held it as her dyingcreed • That she would grown again

  45. meter • A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables • This lovely flower fell to seed • Work gently, sun and rain; • She held it as her dying creed • That she would grown again

  46. rhyme • Chiming effect, music quality • Emphasis on the accented vowel sound • End rhymes—end of the line • Seed Creed

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