Grade 11 Poetry Unit

1. Grade 11 Poetry Unit 10 things to consider …. Poetic Devices Imagery Symbolism Allusion Metre / Rhyme

2. Grade 11 Poetry Unit • Ten things to consider in a poem: • THEME – central thought • IMAGINATION – imagery, figures symbolism • EMOTION – kind of effect, mood of the poem • THOUGHT • PHILOSOPHY – personality • DESCRIPTION • ATTITUDE TO LIFE AND MANKIND • ATTITUDE TO NATURE • CHARACTER • THE TOTAL EFFECT OF THE POEM.

3. Poetic Devices Figurative Language Review

4. Alliteration • The repetition of speech sounds in a sequence of nearby words. • The effect of alliteration is to call attention to the words that contain it, and often to underline their relationship to each other in meaning.

5. Alliteration… • Consonance is the sequence of repeated consonants • Baffled the bird • Carried the cry • Hissed in the sun • Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds – especially in stressed syllables. Thou foster child of silence and slow time

6. Hyperbole • An exaggeration statement not meant to be taken literally, used mainly for emphasis. I am starving to death. (Said by someone whom is very hungry)

7. Metaphor • An implied comparison. In a metaphor only one part of the comparison is stated and the rest is left to the imagination. • The road was a ribbon of moonlight.

8. Simile • Is a comparison that is introduced with “like”, “as”, “so” or “as if” and that stresses the resemblance between two things. • She looks like a rose.

9. Personification • A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities. • The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds See Stephens’ The Wind(The Wind)

10. Imagery • Refers to the words used by a poet to recreated the thoughts, feelings, or experiences he/she has and wishes to share. • Relies heavily on sense perception; sight sound, smell, taste, touch • Helps to make clear and concrete what is abstract and difficult to understand. See The Fish – by Elizabeth Bishop imagery.doc

11. Symbolism • A visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself. • Symbol demands no single necessary interpretation, but it points toward and indefinite meaning. (X.J. Kennedy) The Lightning Is A Yellow Fork- symbolism.doc

12. Allusion • an indirect reference to something. • The Raven – E.A. Poe (THE RAVEN) • The Raven Allusion Sheet (The Raven – Allusion) View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FID1CiB4bcU

13. Metre and Rhythm Metre - Traditional forms of verse use established rhythmic patterns called meters (meter means "measure" in Greek), and that's what meters are — premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Rhythm – a pattern of stresses in a line of verse eg

14. Rhyme • Rhymes are classified by the degree of similarity between sounds within words, and by their placement within the lines or stanzas. • A rhyme scheme is usually the pattern of end rhymes in a stanza, with each rhyme encoded by a letter of the alphabet, from A onward (ABBA BCCB, for example).

15. Poetry Structures • Visit Poetry.org for an extensive list of poetry structures found under Other http://www.poetry.org/termsin.htm (also linked to wiki)