1. Poetry…
…is awesome.
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2. EQ: Can you list the poetic devices used by poets?
Cornell Notes
Topic: Poetic Devices
EQ: Can you list the poetic devices used by poets?

3. Poetic Devices
Poetic devices are tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.
These devices help piece the poem together, much like a hammer and nails join planks of wood together.
Some of these devices are used in literature as well, but for the sake of clarity, we will look at all of these devices through the lens of poetry.

4. When words have the same end sound.
Rhyme
When words have the same end sound.
Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.
Examples
Where
Fair
Air
Bear
Glare

5. Rhyme scheme
Rhyme scheme is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza.
The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by finding the end words that have the same sound.

6. Rhyming Can you think of any pairs of words that rhyme?
In your groups, come up with as many pairs of rhyming words that you can! You have 60 seconds…
GO!!!

7. A B Do you know the rhyme scheme to this poem? Rhyme Scheme (4 lines)
There once was a big brown cat.
That liked to eat a lot of mice.
He got all round and fat.
Because they tasted so nice.
Do you know the rhyme scheme to this poem? B

8. Try this one on your own… (4 lines)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
AABB
A simple hint is to match up the words and assign them letters…

9. Rhyme Scheme Practice
Read the poem “Amazing Grace” by John Newton.
Label the rhyme scheme (using letters like a, b, c, d) by matching each of the rhymed words.
Share your answers with your group.
Report!

10. Homework Write your own rhyming poem.
Your poem must contain at least 8 lines.
After you write your poem, label your rhyme scheme.

11. Warm-up: Identify the Rhyme Scheme
I Miss You
I miss you in the morning; I miss you late at night. Just to think about you Is my joy and my delight.
I can't wait to see you; Please hurry and come back. You always make me happy; You have that special knack!

12. Alliteration – What is it?
When the first sounds in words repeat.
The repetition of the beginning sounds of words,
Examples:
Long-lived, lefty Larry.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,”
“The fickle finger of fate.”

14. More, more, MORE!!!! She sells seashells by the seashore
Carrie’s cat clawed her couch, creating chaos
Quincy’s quilters quit quilting quickly
Walter walked wearily while wondering where Wally was

15. Teeny Timmy’s tinkled toilet.
Let’s Alliterate, Baby!!!
First, let’s brainstorm together…
Now, you try it in your groups. The group with the most amount of alliterated words in a sentence will win!!!
You have 2 minutes, GO!!!
Teeny Timmy’s tinkled toilet.

16. Create a sentence with as much ALLITERATION as you can!
Warm Up
Create a sentence with as much ALLITERATION as you can!
EXAMPLE: Theodore Thought The Thing was Thor!

17. What Is Onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia - A word which imitates a natural sound.
Chirp
Crash
Swoosh
Honk
Meow
Zoom

18. Give one example of hyperbole and one example of onomatopoeia.
Warm Up
Give one example of hyperbole and one example of onomatopoeia.

19. Repetition Repeating a word or words for effect. Example Nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody

20. Rhythm
When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat.
Example
There once was a girl from Chicago
Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub
I’m making a pizza the size of the sun.
Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.

21. Consonance Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words.
Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
Consonants: all other letters.
Examples
Mammals named Sam are clammy.
Curse, bless me now! With fierce tears I prey.

22. Practice Quiz- I’ll put some lines of poetry on the board.
On a separate sheet of paper…
Number 1-10
Read the poem. Then, answer the question. Which techniques (devices) are used? Select all that apply.
Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia.
(Some poems use more than one technique.)

23. The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock was wedded to an octopus.
1. Read the poem. Then, answer the question. Which techniques (devices) are used? Select all that apply. A) Alliteration B) Consonance C) Rhythm D) Rhyme E) Onomatopoeia F) Repetition
The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock
was wedded to an octopus.
She laid a single wooden egg
and hatched a cuckoocloctopus.

24. 2. Read the poem. Then, answer the question
2. Read the poem. Then, answer the question. Which techniques (devices) are used? Select all that apply. A) Alliteration B) Consonance C) Rhythm D) Rhyme E) Onomatopoeia F) Repetition
They are building a house
half a block down
and I sit up here
with the shades down
listening to the sounds,
the hammers pounding in nails,
thack thack thack thack,
and then I hear birds,
and thack thack thack,

25. 3. Read the poem. Then, answer the question
3. Read the poem. Then, answer the question. Which techniques (devices) are used? Select all that apply. A) Alliteration B) Consonance C) Rhythm D) Rhyme E) Onomatopoeia F) Repetition
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the
avenues of the dead.

26. 4. Read the poem. Then, answer the question
4. Read the poem. Then, answer the question. Which techniques (devices) are used? Select all that apply. A) Alliteration B) Consonance C) Rhythm D) Rhyme E) Onomatopoeia
F) Repetition
The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

27. 5. Read the poem. Then, answer the question
5. Read the poem. Then, answer the question. Which techniques (devices) are used? Select all that apply. A) Alliteration B) Consonance C) Rhythm D) Rhyme E) Onomatopoeia
F) Repetition
Homework! Oh, homework! I hate you! You stink! I wish I could wash you away in the sink.

28. Answers
1. Repetition, rhythm, rhyme, consonance, and light alliteration.
2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition
3. Alliteration, repetition
4. Rhythm, rhyme, light alliteration
5. Repetition, rhyme, rhythm
A) Alliteration B) Consonance C) Rhythm D) Rhyme E) Onomatopoeia
F) Repetition

29. Poetry…
…is amazing.

30. Figurative Language
Figuring it Out

31. Topic: Figurative Language
Cornell Notes –
Topic: Figurative Language
EQ: How can I classify various types of figurative language in a poem?

32. Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined
The car is blue.
He caught the football.
Figuratively: figure out what it means
I’ve got your back.
You’re a doll.
Figures of Speech

33. *Tips for reading poems*
Figurative language
Figurative language is language that is not intended to be taken literally.
It sets up comparisons that help readers see things in new ways.
It helps form vivid mental picture of something.
When you come across this, think of what the writer is trying to show you.

34. simile
Simile – a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using the word “like” or “as”
She is as busy as a bee!
My Dad is blind as a bat.
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.
I am as happy as a clam! 
They fought like cats and dogs.

35. A comparison must be made.
Important!
Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile.
A comparison must be made.
Not a Simile: I like pizza.
Simile: The moon is like a pizza.

36. How many similes do you see?
Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world’s desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds a fire. –Christina Rossetti

37. Let’s “Simile-IZE”
Let’s brainstorm together! Now, in your groups, come up with as many similes as you can,

38. What is a metaphor
Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literal in order to suggest a comparison without using “like” or “as”

39. Metaphors- Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
You have a heart of gold.
You are my sunshine.
It’s raining cats and dogs!
He is my rock.
My brother is a pig when he eats!

40. How many metaphors? Metaphors
I'm a riddle in nine syllables. An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf's big with its yeasty rising. Money's new-minted in this fat purse. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there's no getting off.
Sylvia Plath

41. Let’s brainstorm together!
Let’s “Metaphor-ize!”
Let’s brainstorm together!
Now, in your groups, come up with as many metaphors as you can,

42. Personification
Personification - the attribution of human nature or character to animals, or inanimate objects.
In other words… Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
EXAMPLE:
The lawn mower ate the grass as the boy pushed it through the yard.
The 18-wheeler screamed as it went through the tunnel.
The ocean licked the side of the boat.
The flower danced in the gentle breeze.

43. Matching Quiz
You will now generate a quiz to exchange with a partner.
Your quiz must include at least ONE example of PERSONIFICATION, SIMILE, AND METAPHOR.
EXAMPLE:
a) Personification
b) Simile
c) Metaphor B
___1. He is as cunning as a fox.
___2. The bird sang a glorious tune.
___3. He is a bull in a china shop. A C

44. What is Hyperbole? The building was so tall it went up to the moon.
Hyperbole – A figure of speech when exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
The building was so tall it went up to the moon.
I could smell that pizza from a mile away!
She has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.
Mr. Jones has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
My feet are killing me.

46. In your group, create a sentence that contains HYPERBOLE.
Now you try!
In your group, create a sentence that contains HYPERBOLE.
Now, come up with as many words of Onomatopoeia that you can!
Independently, create a sentence that contains both devices.

47. Understatement Expression with less strength than expected.
The opposite of hyperbole.
I’ll be there in one second.
This won’t hurt a bit.

48. Quiz On a separate sheet of paper… Number 1-10
I will put an example of figurative language on the board.
You will determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates.
You can use your notes.

49. He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
Read the following sentence carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.
Can I see you for a second?
The sun was beating down on me.
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement

50. Hyperbole Metaphor Personification Simile Understatement
Read the following sentence carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.
Can I see you for a second?
The sun was beating down on me.
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement

51. 6
I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework, my teacher assigns.
Read the following sentences carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement

52. 7
Read the following sentences carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement
Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey, the North Wind is searching for food—

53. 8
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Read the following sentences carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement

54. Can I have one of your chips?9
Can I have one of your chips?
Read the following sentence carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement

55. 10 I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear
in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise
Read the following sentences carefully, then determine which figurative language element each sentence best illustrates. Choose from the list below.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Understatement

56. Answers D) Simile B) Metaphor E) Understatement C) Personification
A) Hyperbole

57. Poetry Terms
Assonance- The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
Allusion- A reference to a well-known historical person, place, event, literary work or work of art.
Analogy- A comparison of similar objects. An analogy suggests that since the objects are alike in some ways; they will probably be alike in other ways.
Connotation- It is created when you mean something else, something that might initially be hidden. It is based in implication or a shared emotional response.
Denotation- It is when you mean what you say, literally.

58. Poetry Terms
End Rhyme- The rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry.
Imagery- These are the mental pictures that are created by the poet. The poet makes use of the five senses (see, touch, taste, smell and hear). Used to create sense impressions of actual experiences.
Internal Rhyme- Rhyme within lines of poetry.
Meter- The rhyme in the lines of a poem. It is created by the regular alteration of stressed and unstressed syllable.
Mood-The atmosphere of feeling that an author creates in a work.

59. Poetry Terms
Paradox- Occurs in a statement that at first strikes us as self-contradictory but that on some reflection makes sense.
Personification- this is used by an author to give an object or idea human characteristics or attitudes.
Point of View- The way in which the reader is given the information.
Rhetorical Question- A question asked for dramatic reasons and not intended to evoke a response
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60. Poetry Terms
Stanza- The group of lines in a poem. It could be compared to a paragraph in an essay.
Symbol- An object, person, a place or an experience that represents something else, usually abstract.
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61. What are your favorite songs?
Songs are forms of poetry!
In your groups, find or think of a song that uses alliteration and write at least 4 lines from the song to share with the class.
Hint: Use your phone to look up lyrics to your favorite songs and see if you can spot alliteration!

62. Holt Literature Text book
In this unit we will read, respond, and write poetry!
“I’m Nobody” by Emily Dickenson pg. 383
“I am of the Earth” by Anna Lee Walters pg. 387
“Early Song” by Gogisgi Carroll Arnett pg. 387
“Madam and the Rent Man” by Langston Hughes pg. 393
“The Runaway” by Robert Frost pg. 397
“Maggie and Millie and Molly and May” by E.E. Cummings pg. 401