1. HAPPY Monday! 9/12/16
DO NOW: What is one thing you observed over the weekend? Explain.
(Where were you? What were you doing? Did it have an impact on you?)
3-4 sentences

2. 9/12/16 Learning Objective: Learning Goal:
1. I will learn different poetic devices and how they are used in different poems.
2. I will learn how to create a poem about different things I observed.
Learning Objective:
I can define poetic devices and provide an example for each one.
I can write a 10 line poem about a certain thing I observed.

3. CLASS WORK Do Now Go over poetic devices definitions & examples.
Observation Poem
Pick one observation you made over the weekend.
Write a 10 line poem about that observation.
Use at least 2 poetic devices in your poem. (identify the poetic devices)

4. Imagery
Words & phrases that appeal to the five senses: touch, smell, sight, hearing, taste.
Ex: The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.

5. Figurative Language
language employing one or more figures of speech (simile, metaphor, imagery, etc.)
Ex: I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti

6. Simile & Metaphor Simile: comparison using like or as
Ex: Cute as a kitten.
Metaphor: comparison not using like or as
Ex: The snow is a white blanket.

7. Onomotopoeia the use of words that imitate sounds.
Ex: Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.

8. Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Ex: She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.

9. Repetition
repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis in a poem
Ex: Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn…

10. Stanza
The division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
Ex: I am Super Samson Simpson, I'm superlatively strong, I like to carry elephants, I do it all day long, I pick up half a dozen and hoist them in the air, it's really somewhat simple, for I have strength to spare. My muscles are enormous, they bulge from top to toe, and when I carry elephants, they ripple to and fro, but I am not the strongest in the Simpson family, for when I carry elephants, my grandma carries me.

11. Hyperbole
extreme exaggeration
Ex: I’ve told you a million times.

12. Rhyme Scheme
The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza.
Ex: the pattern ababbcbcc.

13. the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Diction
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Ex: any poem/book/article/etc…

14. Ex: Home suggests family, comfort and security
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Ex: Home suggests family, comfort and security

15. Denotation
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
Ex: “And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.”
In the above lines, the word “wall” is used to suggest a physical boundary which is its denotative meaning but it also implies the idea of “emotional barrier”.

16. Punctuation
the marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

17. Line Break
used at the end of a line and the beginning of the next line in a poem. It could be employed without traditional punctuation. Also it can be described as a point where in a line is divided into two halves at the end of a line.

18. the area around the poem.
White Space
the area around the poem.

19. Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Ex:“Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.” This means that her weakness was her love of chocolate.

20. OBSERVATION POEM (10 LINES)
To walk around
Through such a crowded place
While your head is down
Your mind in outer space
Watch where you’re going!
Shouts an angry old man with a broken bone
The middle finger he is now throwing
To the kid on his phone.