Poetic Devices Understanding & Comprehending the beauty and magic world of poetry.

To Rhyme or Not To Rhyme Rhyme: when the end of words sound the same: * Internal rhyme: rhyming occurs WITHIN a line of poetry * End rhyme: rhyming occurs at the END of lines of poetry - Document Patterned Rhyme Scheme (End Rhyme) with alphabet * Free Verse: No patterned end rhyme NOT ALL POETRY RHYMES!!!!

Examples: Identify the type Is there a rhyme pattern? Is it free verse? Bruno Mars “When I Use to be your Man” Same bed but it feels just a little bit bigger now Our song on the radio but it don't sound the same When our friends talk about you, all it does is just tear me down 'Cause my heart breaks a little when I hear your name Kanye West “Dropout” Intro We Don't Care Graduation Day All Falls Down I'll Fly Away Spaceship Jesus Walks Never Let Me Down Get Em High Workout Plan The New Workout Plan Slow Jamz Breathe In Breathe Out Intro We Don't Care Graduation Day All Falls Down I'll Fly Away Spaceship Jesus Walks Never Let Me Down Get Em High Workout Plan The New Workout Plan Slow Jamz Breathe In Breathe Out

Examples: Identify the type Is there a rhyme pattern? Is it free verse? Bruno Mars “When I Use to be your Man” – End Rhyme ABAB Same bed but it feels just a little bit bigger now Our song on the radio but it don't sound the same When our friends talk about you, all it does is just tear me down 'Cause my heart breaks a little when I hear your name Kanye West “Dropout” – Free Verse Intro We Don't Care Graduation Day All Falls Down I'll Fly Away Spaceship Jesus Walks Never Let Me Down Get Em High Workout Plan The New Workout Plan Slow Jamz Breathe In Breathe Out Intro We Don't Care Graduation Day All Falls Down I'll Fly Away Spaceship Jesus Walks Never Let Me Down Get Em High Workout Plan The New Workout Plan Slow Jamz Breathe In Breathe Out

Sound Devices Alliteration : repetition of first sounds Ex) The streets were strange and still Assonance : repetition of vowel sounds. Ex) We light fire on the mountain. CONSONANCE: repetition of consonant internal/end sounds (creates approximate rhyme) Ex) Fixed in onyx A pillar of valor Fish in a mesh net Onomatopoeia: Click, snap, boom, thud, hiss

DIDLS will always be used!!! Diction (especially when repeated) Imagery (5 senses) Details Language (Idioms/Dialect) Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Synecdoche, Hyperbole, Personification, Apostrophe, Symbolism, Allusion Syntax: Anaphora, Epistrophe, Epanalepsis, Anadiplosis, Font, Etc.

The Shakespearean Sonnet It has the Same Format 14 lines 3 stanzas, 1 couplet End Rhyme Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Iambic Pentameter Every line as 10 syllables!!! These syllables help establish the rhythm of the poem

Sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? A Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,C And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; D And every fair from fair sometime declines,C By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;D But thy eternal summer shall not fadeE Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;F Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,E When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; F So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. G Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3 couplet Check out the iambic pentameter. Using your ten fingers, say the lines and see if they contain 10 syllables each! Notice the End Rhyme: Shakespeare often manipulated Words so they Matched in rhyme

QUIZ!!!! Answer these on a separate sheet of paper, or print this slide and complete. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 1. What type of rhyme does this poem have? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: END / INTERNAL / it doesn’t =FREE VERSE Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 2. What sound device is found in this line? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, “By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd” And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; ALLITERATION / CONSONANCE / ASSONANCE And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; 3. Sound device? “And often is his gold complexion But thy eternal summer shall not fade dimm’d” Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; ALLITERATION / CONSONANCE / ASSONANCE Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; 4. This line is an example of what? ________________ So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 5. The couplet uses _________. Similie / Allusion / Anaphora