1. Pride By: Dahlia Ravikovitch
Ashley
&
Mallorree
Pride By: Dahlia Ravikovitch

2. Pride
I tell you, even rocks crack, and not because of age. For years they lie on their backs in the heat and the cold, so many years, it seems peaceful. They don’t move, so the cracks stay hidden. A kind of pride. Years pass over them, waiting there. Whoever is going to shatter them hasn't come yet. And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around, the sea pushes through and rolls back--- the rocks seem motionless. And suddenly the rock has an open wound. I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise. And people, too

3. Form Form: What is Form? Free Verse Why? The way a poem looks
A type of poetic style in which lines are organized in a loose conversational way
Why?
It’s not put into groups of lines

4. Types of rhyme Internal 1. Rhyme within a line
Ex: They don’t move, so the cracks stay hidden
(line 7)
End
2. Rhyme at the end of a line
Ex: I tell you, even rocks crack, and not because of
age. For years they lie on their backs
(line 1-3)

5. Imagery Figurative description or illustration
What do you picture when you read the poem?
Rocks cracking
Waves in a sea
Seaweed flowing
A little seal scratching it’s back on a rock

6. Alliteration Repetition of sounds in the beginning of words
Ex: So the cracks stay hidden (line 7)
Till a little seal comes to run against them
(line 16 )

7. Assonance Repetition of similar vowel sounds Examples:
Whoever is going to shatter them
A kind of pride.

8. Onomatopoeia Use of words whose sound suggest their meaning
Ex: I tell you, even rocks crack ( line 1 )
And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around (line 12 & 13)
Whoever is going to shatter them ( line 10 )

9. Personification Giving human qualities to non-living objects Ex:
For years they lie on their backs ( line 3 )
And suddenly the rock has an open wound
( line 18 )

10. Metaphor Comparing two items without using “like” or “as” Examples
I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise. And people, too. ( line )

11. Repetition
Repeating of sounds or words
Ex:
Rocks cracking

12. Symbolism An object used by an author to represent something else Ex:
The rocks symbolize a person’s emotions and how other’s reactions effect someone.

13. Speaker
The voice the reader hears relating the ideas of a poem, not necessarily the poet.
Being wise

14. Identify/Analyze/Explain
A person can only endorse so much criticism and distress until they finally break down.
Why?
The poem says that rocks can take only so much pressure just like people.
Hurtful words can leave a huge impact on a person’s life.

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