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The tools of the trade

The tools of the trade. A review session on literary terms and techniques. Review of literary terminology. Music, books and many different art forms have a variety of classifications called genres. In our class we read texts from several different genres including Poetry Drama Prose fiction.

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The tools of the trade

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  1. The tools of the trade A review session on literary terms and techniques

  2. Review of literary terminology • Music, books and many different art forms have a variety of classifications called genres. • In our class we read texts from several different genres including • Poetry • Drama • Prose fiction

  3. Focus on Poetry • For today’s session we are going to focus on reviewing Poetry. • By the end of this review session you should understand • The definition of poetry • How Poetry can provoke emotions • How figurative language, imagery, repetition, rhyme and rhythm function as tools in poetry.

  4. Poetry Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

  5. So you see that authors use tools called: Poetic devices • A poet tries to emphasize ideas or provoke emotions by using certain devices, like the ones you heard in the Hughes poem. • Here are some frequently used devices • Figurative language • Imagery • Repetition

  6. Figurative Languagefollow the links to review the definition. • Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. Metaphor and simile are the two most commonly used figures of speech, but things like hyperbole, synecdoche, puns, and personification are also figures of speech.

  7. Word Art • Poets use imagery to paint word pictures, follow the link to hear an example.

  8. What do you think? • Which words from the poem are an example of imagery? • “appeared like a ghost from the south” • “Through the thick grey Nova Scotia mist”

  9. Why do poets use imagery (click on the correct response)?Paint a picture in the readers mindTo sound more sophisticated

  10. Repetition in poetry follow the links to see examples • Repetition follow this link and listen to the stream (takes 5 minutes). • Think about how you use repetition in everyday life and in poetry.

  11. What do you think? • How is repetition used in the poem you heard? • Only sounds are repeated • Both words and sounds are repeated

  12. You are doing a great job! • Now lets take a look at a poet we’ve already studied in class…Langston Hughes.

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V425SdNWIJU&feature=related • Follow the link view a Langston Hughes poem. Poetry I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins.

  14. Response to “Negro Speaks of Rivers” • Think about the emotions that this poem provoked. • What words or images sparked those feelings? • The river • The repetition

  15. The Negro Speaks of Riversread the poem again and try to identify the symbols and imagery I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.I've known rivers:Ancient, dusky rivers.My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes

  16. Now, Let’s test your knowledge!Question 1 • Study the line from the poem and choose the best answer below. “I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world” • Rhyme • Repetition

  17. Questions 2 • Study this line from the poem and choose the best answer below. “I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” • Simile • Metaphor

  18. Question 3 • Study the lines from the poem and choose the best answer below. “I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.” • Personification • hyperbole

  19. Bonus Question 1 • “When Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans” is an example of an • Allusion • Illusion

  20. Bonus question 2 • In this poem, the river is best described as • A symbol • Hyperbole

  21. Congratulations! • You are now ready to use the tools of the trade yourself. For your homework assignment write your own poem utilizing all off the poetic devices you have learned in this review. • Write your poem now and share it through Google docs

  22. Correct!

  23. Good try…but incorrect. Try again

  24. Correct!

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