1. Power-Ups, Binders, Pencils! Some Announcements IN CLASS: INTRO TO POETRY DUE Wed: Poetry Terms HW WE ARE DRESS CODE COMPLIANT. NO FOOD, DRINKS, MP3 PLAYERS, OR CELL PHONES DISTRACT US. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OURSELVES.

2. Food and drink have become a distraction, and the SOL is coming up! If food/drink is visible, it will be confiscated IMMEDIATELY and THROWN AWAY. Second and subsequent offenses will result in disciplinary referrals. A letter was sent home to your parents before break informing them of policy enforcement.

3. 3 minute freewrite  A freewrite means you write and never pick your pencil up from the paper, letting whatever flow out of your mind. You don’t stop and edit, don’t worry about capitalization or punctuation, stay on topic or not! What is poetry? Why do people write it and read it? How do you feel about poetry? Day 16 – 1/5

4. What is Poetry? Watch, listen, and learn!

5. Poetry Vocabulary #1 L.J. Palma © 2007 www.buildingperception.com

6. Alliteration Definition: repetition of consonant sounds that appear in words that are close together Example:  The luxury of living and loving them all

7. Allusion Definition: an implied or indirect reference Example:  “She was another Helen,” alludes to the proverbial beauty of Helen of Troy.

8. Assonance Definition: repetition of vowel sounds that appear in words that are close together Example: Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"  Hear the mellow wedding bells.

9. Couplet Definition: pair of rhyming lines Example: J. Kilmer – Tree  I think that I shall never see (a)  A poem lovely as a tree. (a)

10. Imagery Definition: language that appeals to the five senses; words you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch Example:  Bring them flowers inside  Hurry now, dry ‘em and die ‘em  And hang ‘em on the wall as memories

11. Ex: Shoeboxes on the top shelf Come on, little girl Bring them flowers inside Hurry now, dry ‘em and die ‘em And hang ‘em on the wall as memories Between them ticket stubs, above them letters Beneath photographs fadin’ with age Amidst all them other flowers; memories on that wall It’s that time again, girl Git yourself another shoebox, Strip that wall bare, cram that shrine inside Too good for garbage cans but nothing jist the same That’s right there, girl File it between James and John Close that closet door and Sit – on the other side – and cry Thinking on how you won’t open it again But to file another lifetime away

12. Metaphor Definition: comparison between unlike things, one in which some reasonable connection is instantly revealed and is more forceful than a simile because like and as are not used Example:  “The road was a ribbon of moonlight.”

13. Meter Definition: strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line Example: (stressed syllables underlines)  Roses are red  Violets are blue  I like poetry  And you do, too.

14. Mood Definition: the feeling connected to a poem Example:  In Ash Inevitable, what mood is the poem in? It’s depressed, so the poem is depressing.

15. Ex: Ash Inevitable She’s a pile of wood, now Stacked up against the tree That she used to be a part of, Used to be alive in. She hadn’t even died yet When they wrenched her down, Chopped her up, Turned her into something useful – Dead, but useful.

16. And now she simply sits, Pieces of herself perfectly piled At the base of her birthplace, Her final resting place. She couldn’t sway in the wind even if she wanted to; Xylem and phloem No longer flow through those veins. The cross-sections of her severed limbs show Rings of age – twenty-two years chopped up, Sensibly stacked to maximize Societal contribution. Fire. Brimstone. Ash inevitable.

17. Tone Definition: attitude expressed towards poem’s subject or audience Example:  In Ash Inevitable, the author’s attitude towards the death of the tree is angry.

18. Ex: Ash Inevitable She’s a pile of wood, now Stacked up against the tree That she used to be a part of, Used to be alive in. She hadn’t even died yet When they wrenched her down, Chopped her up, Turned her into something useful – Dead, but useful.

19. And now she simply sits, Pieces of herself perfectly piled At the base of her birthplace, Her final resting place. She couldn’t sway in the wind even if she wanted to; Xylem and phloem No longer flow through those veins. The cross-sections of her severed limbs show Rings of age – twenty-two years chopped up, Sensibly stacked to maximize Societal contribution. Fire. Brimstone. Ash inevitable.

20. Onomatopoeia Definition: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it Example:  A crack of thunder

21. Personification Definition: attributing human qualities to a nonhuman thing or to an abstract idea Example:  Hunger sat shivering on the road

22. Quatrain Definition: rhyming four line stanza Example: Many are the distractions (a) Few are the rewards (b) Used imaginations (a) Hung on metal cords (b)

23. Simile Definition: a comparison between two things using a connection like or as Example:  Life is like a box of chocolates

24. Sonnet Definition: a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five- foot iambics rhyming with three quatrains and a concluding couplet Example:  Sonnet 141 by William Shakespeare

25. Ex: Sonnet 141 (Shakespeare) In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote; Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast with thee alone: But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man, Thy proud heart’s slave and vassal wretch to be: Only my plague thus far I count my gain, That she that makes me sin awards me pain. Quatrain Couplet

26. Symbolism Definition: using, employing, or exhibiting one symbol to represent something else Example:  In Julius Caesar, hawks circling is a foreboding symbol of something bad to come

27. Poetry Terms #1 Important Terms – Quiz next week L.J. Palma © 2007 www.buildingperception.com

28. Power-Ups, Binders, Pencils! IN CLASS: INTRO TO POETRY DUE Wed: Poetry Terms HW WE ARE DRESS CODE COMPLIANT. NO FOOD, DRINKS, MP3 PLAYERS, OR CELL PHONES DISTRACT US. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OURSELVES.